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Another City

A Journal of Orthodox Culture

More articles by Nun Barbara (Khopovo)

On Suicide

June 9, 2018 / Nun Barbara (Khopovo)

Christ triumphant and the hanging of Judas. Ivory. Rome, 420-30

Orthodoxy not uncommonly calls on us to maintain a sort of binocular vision, affirming two seemingly opposing views. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of suicide, where we are asked both to love the perpetrator and refrain from judgment, while at the same time condemning the act as itself profoundly abhorrent. Our therapeutic mindset finds the former easy, and the … [Read more...] about On Suicide

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