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In this issue of The Rule of Faith: A Journal of Orthodox Thought & Culture, the journal of the St. Basil Society, in conjunction with the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture at Eastern Univeristy, after editorials by Fr. Joseph Lucas and Dr. Cyril Jenkins, we have articles from Dr. Mary Ford ("Continuing the Pattern: Orthodox Church Architecture in Light of the Old Covenant Temples—And Its Implications for a Controversial Contemporary Issue"), Paul Kingsnorth ("Whatever Should a Conservative Do When There’s Nothing Left to Preserve"), Fr. Raphael {Brown} ("A Due Measure in Keeping Silence & Also in Speaking"), Protodeacon Brian Patrick Mitchell ("Fr. Thomas Hopko on Same-Sex Attraction: Speaking the Truth in Love, or Half-Truths in Fear?") and Fr. Demetrios Harper ("“Determined in the Interweaving of Everyday Trifles and Ordinary Events”: Georges Florovsky on the Significance of History for the Future of Christian Ethics"). From our essays' titles you can see that this issue of the journal addresses questions about the proper order of the universe, liturgically, politically, personally, morally, and intellectucally. We are happy no end also to bring you several poems by Matthew Robb Brown. We hope it is both edifying and enjoyable.