Dear Father Demetrios, CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! Just a note to ask you to return the display about our monastery and missions, if you haven’t already sent it back to Etna. We haven’t even seen it ourselves, so please send it here. I’m sorry you have to return so many of our books, but

Dear Father Photios, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! I have heard from several people who were present at the recent Orthodox conference in Pennsylvania that you are planning to print a book by Dr. Kalomiros on creation and evolution. From one of these persons I heard that this book is to

Dear Father Gregory, Christ is in our midst! Many thanks for your letter. We have heard from several others also of the “party” spirit at the Pennsylvania conference, which is sad but is now what we have come to expect. We plan no public disputes over anything, and I pray that God will keep us

our Grace, dear Vladika Gregory, Blagoslovite! We have heard from several sources that the Greek clergy in our Church are making a rather loud protest against our recent articles on Archimandrite Tavrion (The Orthodox Word #96). The main article was sent us by Metropolitan Philaret specifically for publication, and we printed also his short letter

Your Grace, dear Vladika Laurus, Blagoslovite! First of all, Father Herman and all the brethren send you heartfelt congratulations on your namesday. Spasi, Christe Bozhe! Thank you very much also for your recent visit to us, which was very much appreciated by our pilgrims. Our pilgrimage seems to have been a great success, with much

Dear Dr. Johnstone. May the blessing of the Lord by with you! Thank you for your letter of August 10/23 and the copy of your letter to Metropolitan Philaret. We do appreciate your sending it. I am sad to hear that you find The Orthodox Word, no. 96 so greatly disturbing. I honestly think the

Dear Father Michael [Azkoul], Christ is in our midst! Thank you for your letter. I am frankly happy to see someone with your views on Blessed Augustine willing to do something besides hit him (and all of us who have any respect for him) over the head. You ask for cooperation on what seems to

CHRIST IS RISEN! Dear Brother in Christ, George, IN TRUTH HE IS RISEN! Enclosed is the first copy of “The Light of Orthodoxy” which you sent us. I looked through it and have pointed out in pencil in the text two or three places which I thought might cause you some trouble. However, I simply

Dear Vanya [Danz, John D’Anci?], May the blessing of the Lord be with you! To be frank, it was a great relief for us to receive your two letters and hear that you had left the monastery in Boston, despite the difficult spiritual experience this may be for you. Just a few days before receiving

Dear Father Alexey, Christ is in our midst! I’ve had a bad cold this week and have kept to my cell, and therefore have had time for a few reflections on our mission, church life, etc. First of all, I’ve looked at some of the recent Orthodox periodicals—and on the whole, what a dreary collection

Dear James [Paffliausen], May the blessing of the Lord be with you! It was good to hear from you and of your reflections; although your situation may seem confusing to you right now, the thinking and evaluating you are forced to do are all for the good and will be profitable in the long run.

Dear John [Hudanish], May the blessing of the Lord be with you! I received your letter with its clear message: either we do things your way, or you kick us out! Of course, you view it differently: that you are standing up for correctness, Orthodoxy, etc., and this is your duty since the clergy don’t

Dear Brother and Sister in Christ, George and Margaret, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your letter, which we appreciate for its sincerity. While perhaps there are differences in our views, if we can express them sincerely, and with mutual love and forgiveness, these differences will not constitute an

Right Rev. Bishop Gregory 75 E. 93rd St. New York, N.Y. 10028 Your Grace, Dear Vladika Gregory, Blagoslovite! Thank you for your kind letter and the Synod document regarding the “controversy” on life after death. While I find this document quite satisfactory as far as it goes, I was rather sorry to see that it

St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood Platina, California 96076 Mrs. Irina Hay Russian Research Center Harvard University 1737 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Dear Mrs. Hay, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your “open letter” of November 3 and your personal letter of November 4. I assure you that I found no

Dear Brother in Christ, Constantine, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Many thanks for your letter and the check for $50. Your renewal for The Orthodox Word has been recorded, and The Soul After Death and 1981 Calendar will be sent shortly. I am replying for Father Herman, who has had a

Dear Father Demetrios, Christ is in our midst! Many, many thanks for your letter of concern over the latest outbreak of hostile feelings in our Church (Deacon Levs Open Letter). I certainly have no intention to reply to such a letter, which seems more like some kind of deliberate “provocation” than a serious or well-meaning

Your Grace, Dear Vladika Gregory, Blagoslovite! Thank you very much for your letter of Nov. 9/22. Please be assured that I have no intention of replying to Deacon Levs “Open Letter,” which I regard more as a “provocation” than as a serious attempt to deal with theological issues. To the few priests who have inquired,

(Thanksgiving Day) Dear Anna, Catechumen, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! I was happy to receive your letter—happy not because you are confused about the question that troubles you, but because your attitude reveals that in the truth of Orthodoxy to which you are drawn you wish to find room also for

Dear Father Demetrios, Christ is in our midst! I have just written Fr. Photios, declining the invitation to speak at the 1981 Conference, I know that this will be a disappointment to you, but I hope that you will be able to understand my feelings and will not judge me. Officially, I am declining because

Dear Father Photios, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you very much for the invitation of the Orthodox Conference to be a speaker at the 1981 Conference in Pennsylvania. I am honored and grateful. However, next summer will be a very busy one for me. At just about the same time

Dear John [Hudanish], May the blessing of the Lord be with you! A few words on a point or two of your recent letter; I was rather disappointed that you didn’t appreciate Fr. Roman’s letter. I read it again after reading your letter, and it’s obvious to me that his letter comes from the heart

Dear Michael, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your long and informative letter on the Seattle conference and your own ideas on Fr. Dimitry Dudko. We were not at all offended by anything you wrote there; in our opinion it is quite possible to have differences of opinion on

Dear Rev. [Marion J. (Symeon)] Cardoza, May the blessing of the Lord be with you. I have received your second letter and am very touched by the urgency of your appeal to find the true roots of Christianity. Please forgive my delay in answering your first letter; we have been very busy these past few

Dear John [Hudanish], May the blessing of the Lord be with you. It was good to hear from you at such length. I will answer your questions as well as I can in the little time I have: Regarding Dr. [Stephen] Reynolds: no, we had not invited him to speak at our Pilgrimage nor did