November 22, 2019 Deciding to Enter into Marriage: The First Rule of Marriage In this cycle of conversations on “The Grammar of family life” Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks on how marriage is understood in the Orthodox Church,…
November 22, 2019 Blood that Cries and Capital Punishment The question was recently put to me whether I could bring myself to pull the switch to execute someone sitting in an electric chair…
November 22, 2019 We Must Read God’s Word, Even If We Can’t Understand Much Many of today’s Christians are almost completely unfamiliar with the word of God. They have read and studied all the worldly things a thousand…
November 21, 2019 The Archangel Michael Inscriptions and the Angels of the Church Let’s take a look at a 14th century icon in the Byzantine Museum, Athens. It represents the Archangel Michael, leader of the heavenly armies….
November 21, 2019 The Angelic World is Real We depict the Holy Archangel on icons as a warrior, bearing a sword and clad in armor. We always introduce human images into our…
November 20, 2019 “God Has Come!” I think that each of us, regardless of age and spiritual experience, needs words of strengthening. Because a person is struggling during his life;…
November 20, 2019 From Hearsay to Social Media – a Tale of Rumor Spreading “Strong minds discuss ideas‚ average minds discuss events‚ weak minds discuss people.” – Socrates There is a story that circulates in Christian and Jewish circles about…
November 19, 2019 About Elder Joseph the Hesychast Every person grows. From the point of view of Orthodox theology, even the bliss of those saved in paradise is not static, but, as…
November 19, 2019 How to Be Rescued from Envy “What a gnawing worm of the soul it is – to envy someone for his virtue or for his happiness; to make others’ good…
November 19, 2019 Lifehacks of Matushka Elena Matushka Elena Ovcharenko is a mother of eight and the wife of Archpriest Alexander, a priest of the Diocese of Zaporozhye. Personal Motto “Live…
November 18, 2019 The Quiet Courage of Patriarch Tikhon He wasn’t a theologian and didn’t possess the charisma of a social activist, like his “competitor” for the Patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky). He…
November 18, 2019 Miracles in the Lives of Orthodox Christians. Archpriest Boris Prokofiev Miracles happen in our lives every day, but we don’t always notice them. However, there are times when no one can doubt the presence…
