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of extracts from the war-time correspondence between Archbishop Randall
Davidson and the Russian Church. The second article recounts the wartime
presence in England of Saint Nokolai Velimirovic. Both reveal something of the
signi?cance of the war for ecumenical relations, as Christians overcame tradi-
tional boundaries in the exigencies of that bleak period.

There is a short article on a recent and signi?cant icon commission of
the Annunciation for St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park. Our Chairman
also shares his review of a book examining three centuries of the Russian Or-
thodox Church in London.

Most signi?cantly of all, this edition of Koinonia comes with the full
text of the Constantinople Lecture delivered by Fr John Behr of St Vladimir’s
Seminary in New York. Fr Behr is a distinguished professor of Patristics and we
are grateful for his permission to include the text of his lecture here. Who
knows, in a century’s time perhaps this lecture will form the basis for another
‘From the archives’ article? It is only by looking back that we can see the fruits
of our labours, which at the time were so hard-won and perhaps seemed so
meagre and insigni?cant. Our wraths and sorrows seem to make a mockery of
our endeavours and history is often both tragic and tedious in repeating itself,
but as Christians we believe that there can also be real progress, change and
newness, because we trust in Him who brought life out of death and said, ‘Be-
hold, I make all things new’ (Rev. 21.5).

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