October 3, 2018 234 0 10 Pieces of Advice for Those Who Consider Themselves Christians 1. Know your faith and know how to explain why we confess Orthodox Christianity. “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always…
October 3, 2018 665 0 15 Quotes of Spiritual Guidance by Saint Macarius of Optina 1. Faith is the foundation of all goodness you need both in this life and to secure a good fate in the future everlasting eternity….
October 3, 2018 173 0 How One Should Read the Holy Scripture in the Right Way Perhaps one of the most memorable verses in the New Testament comes from the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel, “ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος,…
October 2, 2018 136 0 Parable of the Day: What Has Sin in Common with Dirty Laundry? Dirty laundry needs to be washed sooner or later. You can dump the dirty clothes into a huge vat to postpone the unpleasant moment…
October 2, 2018 144 0 Discussing the Main Reasons for Loss of Faith It’s easy to find testimonies about “deconversion”, aka loss of faith, in the English-language part of the World Wide Web. People who grew up…
October 1, 2018 78 0 Parable of the Day: The Child Who Wished to Be a TV Set An elementary school teacher invited her students to write an essay about the gift that they’d like to receive from Santa. She went home…
October 1, 2018 75 0 Goodness: What Is Said in the Scripture about One of the Main Virtues In his list of virtues which comprise the fruit of Spirit working in one’s life, St. Paul lists that of “goodness” (Greek agathosune, αγαθοσυνη)…
October 1, 2018 196 2 Q&A with a Priest: Is an Orthodox Christian Allowed to Do Yoga? Question: Dear Father Andrew, please help me to figure out which position to take with regard to yoga as a physical practice. I did…