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Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Struggle for English in the Church Services – Fr. Athanasius Iskander

Usage of English Language, Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Culture in American (Eastern) Orthodox Christian Churches – Alexei Krindatch

Testimony and Witness of Emahoy Wolete Selassie of Kidane Mehret Kidane Selam EOTC Hermitage-Monastery, Bronx, NY

Debunking the Myth that Christianity is the White Man’s Religion, Part 1 – Chris Broussard (July 12, 2016)

Debunking the Myth that Christianity is the White Man’s Religion, Part 2 – Chris Broussard (July 12, 2016)

Universal Negro Catechism – Archbishop George Alexander McGuire

A Brief Biography of George Alexander McGuire, Primate of the African Orthodox Church – Orthodox Wiki

The Atheist Student Who Visited Mount Athos

Studies on the Biography of Blatta Hayle Maryam Redda (1909-1995) – Fesseha Berhe

Making Sex Education Work, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, (November 2014) – Peter Jon Mitchell

Finding Fault with No-Fault Divorce, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (February 2012) – Andrea Mrozek

The Marriage Gap between Rich and Poor Canadians, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (February 2014) – Peter Jon Mitchell and Philip Cross

Gay Marriage: The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution – Sylvain Larocque

The Skin I’m In, Toronto Life, April 21, 2015 – Desmond Cole

The Rise of Homeschooling Among Black Families, The Atlantic, February 17, 2015 – Jessica Huseman

Foundation of Education in Ethiopia, BornBlack, November 1, 2008 – Yohana Otite

The Spirit of a Pure Christianity: Exploring Ethiopia’s Stunning Subterranean Churches, The Independent (July 31, 2015) – Evgeny Lebedev

Strange Yet Familiar: My Journey to the Orthodox Church (Part III) – Kallistos, Bishop of Diokleia

The Canons of Ritual Uncleanness and Women in the Orthodox Church – Dr. Maria Fotini Polidoulis Kapsalis

Ritual Impurity – Sister Vassa Larin

On ‘Ritual Impurity’: In Response to Sister Vassa Larin – Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

More to the Point: Should Nuns Light Their Icon Lamps? – Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

The Pure and the Pious: Corporeality, Flow and Transgression in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity – Anita Hannig (academia.edu)

Women and the Canons of the Church: A Difficult Relationship – Teva Regule

Ancient Taboos and Gender Prejudice: Challenges for Orthodox Women and the Church – ed. Leonie B. Liveris

Orthodox Iconography: Theological Anthropology in Colour – Rev. Fr. Geoffrey Ready

The Mystery of Ethiopian Iconography – Jonathan Pageau

The Art of Empire: Christian Art in Its Imperial Context – eds. Lee M. Jefferson and Robin M. Jensen

Icon and Devotion – Oleg Tarasov

The Image Revealed: Study and Conservation of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Ethiopian Church Painting – Heidi Cutts, Lynne Harrison, Catherine Higgitt and Pippa Cruickshank

Ethiopian Painting at the Athens University Museum: Questioning the Validity of a Nostalgic Folklore – Dr. Konstantina Drakopoulou and Dr. Mirka Palioura (academia.edu)

Traditional Education of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Its Potential for Tourism Development (1975-Present) – Eshetu Tesfa (academia.edu)

Ark of the Covenant: Evidence supporting the Ethiopian Traditions – Dr. Bernard Leeman    

The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant: The True History of the Tablets of Moses – Stuart Munro-Hay   

The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Experts on the Ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and Modern Astronomy – eds. Peter Barthel & George van Kooten

Holy Water and Pseudoscience: Who Needs Experiments on Holy Things? – Vladimir Gurbolikov

A Defence of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975)            

Resurrection in Ethiopian Christianity: A Comparative Study of the Characteristics and Development of Resurrection Beliefs in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Mauricio Lapchik Minski (academia.edu)

The New and the Old Jerusalem – An Ethiopian Christian Perspective towards the Holy City in the Late Middle Ages – Mauricio Lapchik Minski (academia.edu)

The Kebra Nagast and the Syriac Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius: A Miaphysite Eschatological Tradition – Mauricio Lapchik Minski (academia.edu)

Deir Sultan, Ethiopia and the Black World – Negussay Ayele 

Ethiopia’s Claim on Deir Es-Sultan Monastery in Jerusalem, 1850s-1994 – Tigab Bezie

The Ethiopian Church in Jerusalem – Debre Genet (Sanctuary of Paradise) – Geoffrey Ben-Nathan 

Immigrants and Kings: Foreignness in Ethiopia through the Eye of Armenian Diaspora – Boris Adjemian (academia.edu)

The Good Ship Jesus: The Beginning of the (Trans-Atlantic) Slave Trade – Kathryn McKinney

Uncovering the Brutal Truth about the British Empire, The Guardian (August 18, 2016) – Marc Parry

Nelson Mandela Memorial Service Speech – His Grace Abba Yacob, Archbishop of All Africa, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, December 2013

An Interview with the Venerable Getahun Atlaw, Archdeacon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Israel – December 2000

On Emahoy Welete Mariam Gelaw

A British Journey to Ethiopian Orthodoxy

The Ethiopian World Federation: A Pan-African Organization among the Rastafari in Jamaica – Giulia Bonacci (academia.edu)

Songs of Freedom: The Rastafari Road to Orthodoxy

Bob Marley: Orthodox Christian

Bermuda Sun News Story on EOTC in Bermuda & Archbishop Abuna Thaddaeus Gidey (2012)

Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Visit with Guyanese President, David Granger, Guyanese Chronicle (May 25, 2016)

African-American Orthodoxy – Dr. Albert J. Raboteau

Harlem to Ethiopia, in Search of Their Spiritual Roots

We Are Going to Live in Paradise: Orthodoxy in the Congo – Fr. Theotimos Tsalas

In Memoriam: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – A Bright Flame

Elderly Christian Woman Stripped Naked and Paraded through Streets by Mob (of Muslim Men in Southern Egypt – May 2016)

Falling for ISIS Propaganda about Christians – Nina Shea (July 2016)

The United States Bars Christian, Not Muslim Refugees from Syria, Council for Foreign Affairs blog (September 2016) – Elliot Abrams

Universities Canada Proposes Exclusivity over Diversity, Convivium, (September 14, 2016) – Michael Van Pelt

Protecting Religious Freedom in a Multicultural Canada, Creed, Freedom of Religion and Human Rights, Diversity Magazine, Volume 9:3, (Summer 2012) – David Seljak

Creed, Freedom of Religion and Human Rights, Diversity Magazine, Volume 9:3, (Summer 2012)

Go to School, You’re a Little Black Boy – Lincoln Alexander

A Journey Back in Time: A Look at the History of Armenians in Ethiopia – David Zenian

In the Company of Emperors: The Story of Ethiopian Armenians – Ani Aslanian

Immigrants and Kings: Foreignness in Ethiopia through the Eye of Armenian Diaspora – Boris Adjemian (academia.edu)

Greeks in the Ethiopian Court, 1700-1770 – Theodore Natsoulas

Fear of a Black Pulpit? Real Racial Transcendence versus Cultural Assimilation in Multiracial Churches – Richard N. Pitt (academia.edu)

Witness for an Apostle: The Evidence for St. Thomas in India – Road to Emmaus Journal

Return to Orthodoxy: An Examination of Jaroslav Pelikan’s Embrace of the Eastern Faith – Ambrose Ih-Ren Mong

The Obedience of Love: An Interview with Sister Gavrilia

The Last Roman Emperor Topos in the Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition, MA Thesis (2011) – Andras Kraft

Christian Divine, Holy & Saintly Protection of African Rulers in the Byzantine ‘Coptic’ Iconographic Tradition, PhD Thesis (2014), University of Johannesburg – Raita Steyn (view abstract)

The Sacred and the Profane: Environmental Anthropology of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity – Gebrehiwot Gebreslassie Zesu

Ethiopian Orthodox Church Forests: Opportunities and Challenges for Restoration, PhD Thesis (2007) – Alemayehu Wassie Eshete

The Contribution of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Forest Management and Its Best Practices to be Scaled up in North Shewa Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia – Abiyou Tilahun, Hailu Terefe, Teshome Soromessa

The Role of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of Some Churches in Inderta, Tigray – Gebrehiwot Gebreslassie Zesu

The Role of Ethiopian Orthodox Churches and Monasteries in Forest Management Practices in Chilga and Mettema Woredas Districts, North Gondar Zone – Yeshambel Mulat

The Orthodoxy and Sustainable Development: A Potential for Broader Involvement of the Orthodox Churches in Ethiopia and Russia – Valery Votrin

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney

How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa – Olufemi Taiwo

Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong – Morten Jerven

What Colonialism Ignored – eds. Sam Moyo and Yoichi Mine

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America – Manning Marable

Just Property: A History in the Latin West: Volume 1: Wealth, Virtue and the Law – Christopher Pierson

Just Property: Volume 2: Enlightenment, Revolution and History – Christopher Pierson

The New Rulers of the World – John Pilger

Imperialist Canada – Todd Gordon

Canada As Colonial Power [Review of Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada] – Madelaine Drohan

Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History – Laura Madokoro, David Meren and Francine McKenzie

Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers’ Insecurity, Metcalf Foundation (2012) – Fay Faraday

Racism, Colonialism and Indigeneity in Canada: A Reader – eds. Martin J. Cannon and Lina Sunseri

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Canada and the Third World – eds. Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills and Scott Rutherfold

A Hundred Years of Immigration to Canada, 1900 – 1999, Part 1: 1900 – 1949 – Janet Dench, Executive Director, Canadian Council for Refugees

A Hundred Years of Immigration to Canada, 1900 – 1999, Part 2: 1950 – 1999 – Janet Dench, Executive Director, Canadian Council for Refugees

Restocking the British World: Empire Migration and Anglo-Canadian Relations, 1919-30 – Kent Fedorowich

A Critical Look at Canadian Perspective on the Global Refugee Crisis (March 2016) – Afifa Hashimi

Where the Rivers Meet: Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northeast Territories – Carly A. Dokis

Imperial Canada Inc: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industies – Alain Deneault

Canada: A New Tax Haven: How the Country That Shaped Caribbean Tax Havens Is Becoming One Itself – Alain Deneault

Empty Promises: Why Workplace Pension Law Doesn’t Deliver Pensions – Elizabeth Shilton

Easy Prey Investors: Why Broken Safety Nets Threaten Your Wealth – Al Rosen and Mark Rosen

Imperial Designs: The Royal Bank of Canada and the Caribbean – Peter James Hudson (academia.edu)

Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy – Jamie Brownlee

Neoliberalism and Canada’s Ruling Class (Review of Ruling Canada) – Greg Albo

The Vertical Mosaic – John Porter

Income Inequality: The Canadian Story – David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell, France St-Hilaire

Eroding Tax Faireness: Tax Incidence in Canada, 1990 to 2005, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2007) – Marc Lee

The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essential Readings – Barrington Walker

African Methodist Episcopal Church Passes Climate Resolution, The Huffington Post, (July 18, 2016) – Antonia Blumberg

Climate Change Adaptation to Drought through Environmental Rehabilitation in Ethiopia – Abbadi Girmay Reda and Nitrin K. Tripathi (academia.edu)

Assessing the Status of Food Security in Face of Climate Change and Variability: the Case of Choke Mountain Watershed, Eastern Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia – Demeku Mesfin (academia.edu)

Climate Change and Africa – ed. Pak Sum Low

To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa – Nnimmo Bassey

“The Caribou Taste Different Now”: Inuit Elders Observe Climate Change – eds. Jose Gerin-Lajoie, Alain Cuerrier and Laura Siegwart Collier

Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa – eds. Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World – Arturo Escobar

Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia (Factsheet) – World Food Programme

Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights – Pete Daniel

Black, White and Green: Farmers Markets, Race and the Green Economy – Alison Hope Alkon

Structural Racialization and Food Insecurity in the United States – Elsadig Elsheikh and Nadia Barhoum

D-Town Farm: African American Resistance to Food Insecurity and the Transformation of Detroit – Monica M. White (academia.edu)

The Great Food Robbery: How Corporations Control Food, Grab Land and Destroy the Climate – GRAIN

Merchants of Grain – Dan Morgan

Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies – Brewster Kneen

Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds – Claire Hope Cummings

Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation – William F. Engdahl

Earth Grab Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes – ETC Group

Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation – Yves Engler

Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa – Paula Butler

Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America – Todd Gordon and Jeffrey R. Webber

Hear No Evil: Forced Labor and Corporate Responsibility in Eritrea’s Mining Sector – Human Rights Watch Report (January 2013)

The Slaves of Eritrea – Matthew Mclearn, Canadian Business (May 9, 2014)

The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy – Yves Engler

Canada’s Economic Apartheid – Grace Edward Galabuzi

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada: A Citizen’s Guide – eds. Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew

Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada – eds. Aiziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith

Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada – Tanya Basok

Legislated Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada – Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) Model Program or Mistake?, Canadian Labour Congress (April 2011) – Karl Fletcher 

Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada – Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey and Andrew Parnaby

Policing Slaves Since the 1600s: White Supremacy, Slavery and Modern US Police Departments – Auandaru Nirhani

A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing – Victor E. Kappeler

Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing, Motherboard (July 8, 2016) – Jason Koebler and Brian Anderson

The Legal and Ethical Ramifications of Letting Police Kill Suspects with Robots, Motherboard (July 9, 2016) – Jason Koebler

Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957 – Reg Whitaker

The Word of Wisdom and the Creation of Animals in Africa – Shelagh Ranger

Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment – Margaret Barker and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Living in God’s Creation: Orthodox Perspectives on Ecology – Elizabeth Theokritoff

Greening the Orthodox Parish: A Handbook for Christian Ecological Practice – Frederick W. Krueger

On Earth As In Heaven: Ecological Vision and Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature and Creation – eds. John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz

Ecology and Ethiopian Orthodox Theology – Tsehai Berhane-Selassie, in Ecotheology: Voices from South and North – ed. David G. Hallman

Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations – Laura Westra

Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis – Ian Angus and Simon Butler

Environment and Society in Ethiopia – Girma Kebbede

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution and Residential Mobility – Dorceta Taylor

Sacrifice Zones – Steve Lerner

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States – Carl A. Zimring

From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century – Frederick Buell

Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril and the Origins of Conservation – Miles A. Powell

Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering – Clive Hamilton

Climate Justice and Geoengineering – ed. Christopher J. Preston

Climate Change Geoengineering – ed. Wil C. G. Burns

Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming – James Hoggan

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life – James Daschuck

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine – Robert Conquest

Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devasting Catastrophe, 1958-62 – Frank Dikotter

The New Famines: Why Famines Persist in an Era of Globalization – ed. Steph Devereux

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It – Julian Cribb

The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System – Lorenzo Cotula

Hunger: The Biology and Politics of Starvation – John R. Butterly and Jack Shepherd

Canadian Water Politics – eds. Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns and B. Timothy Heinmiller

Well of Lies: The Walkerton Water Tragedy – Colin Perkel

Blue Gold, Blue Covenant, Blue Future – Maude Barlow

Economics for Everyone – Jim Stanford

El Nino in Ethiopia (February 2016) – Oxfam International

Human Security: Setting the Agenda for the Horn of Africa – ed. Makumi Mwagiru

This Ethiopian Prince was Kidnapped by Britain – Now It Must Release Him, The Guardian (September 7, 2015) – Maaza Mengiste

Acknowledging White Privilege: An Act of Veneration, Reconciliation Services blog (August 1, 2016) – Fr. Justin Mathews

Violence or Veneration?, Reconciliation Services blog (April 25, 2016) – Fr. Alexii Althschul

Living Beyond the “End of the World”: A Spirituality of Hope – Margaret Swedish

Hope in Time of Abandonment – Jacques Ellul

Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World – Jacques Ellul

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