A new book from the Acton Institute explores environmentalism from an Orthodox perspective.

The Incarnation teaches us that matter, matters. Far from detracting from the spirit of services, beautiful churches acknowledge our human embodiedness.

Jordan Ballor’s collection of essays on Christian social thought and action is a culturally-engaged, deeply reflective contribution to a timely topic.

We cannot ignore and dismiss other human beings, we cannot demonize the culture, and we can’t run away from the world clutching our pearls. They are all God’s as well, and they are our neighbors.

This essay focuses on the role of meditation, the Jesus Prayer in particular, in cultivating justice in the soul and how that might also affect our communities and societies.

“As I have watched adoptive families welcome children with special needs into their homes, I have seen them paint beautiful gospel pictures with their lives: pictures of compassion, selflessness, and mercy.”

Given the challenge of the Cappadocian fathers that what we have in abundance belongs to the needy, this article summarizes some essential principles and then offers a few rules of prudence to help guide our application in our contemporary context.

We have an obligation to share from our overabundance with those who lack basic necessities. If we fail to do so, we have ignored the needs of the Lord Jesus, Who identified Himself with “the least of these.”