Sign the Appeal to Stop Religious Persecution in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
On November 3, Dr. Christos Simelidis will examine how Christians of the fourth century responded to Greek education, highlighting Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus, and showing how the transformation of classical paideia ensured the transmission of ancient thought throughout Byzantium. Register here. More details are included in the event poster.
On October 9, Dr. Despina Prassas spoke about the diptychs—the liturgical commemoration of saints—as both a stumbling block and possible bridge in dialogue between the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, raising fresh questions about unity, tradition, and pastoral practice. View the poster for more information.
On September 29, Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Philadelphia, shared his reflections from his recent visitation of Ukraine. He focused on the Russian war against Ukraine, its moral and material consequences and human cost, and the possibility or impossibility of a just peace and of mending “the wounds of the war.”