“Changing Course,” Loving Our Enemies – Jim Forest

Chapter 1 of Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment by Jim Forest. Orbis, 2014. One day Jesus asked the question, “Do people gather figs from thistles?” The answer is of course no — you harvest what you plant. Plant thistles and...

Learning to Love our Enemies – Jim Forest

Talk given (Aug 2014) at Iona pilgrimage with Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona, led by Metro. Kallistos Ware By Jim Forest One of the stories told about St Columba has to do with a custom still familiar to Orthodox Christians. How often we bring an object that has special...

“An eye for an eye” – Prot (KPAX)

"Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. "Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision; but...