August 20, 2019 Should Orthodox Christians Let Their Children Associate with Unbelievers? “We have a problem: our son is friends with a boy next door. His parents are totally worldly people—they don’t go to church, they…
August 19, 2019 Why Do Farmers Bring Their Produce to Church for Consecration? Adam’s sons were the first to start bringing some of the fruit of the ground as an offering to God (Gen. 4:2-4). Since Moses, the…
August 19, 2019 The Tale of Three Sons There was once a man who had three sons. One day, the first son came to his father and said, “Dad, everyone knows you’re…
August 19, 2019 The Glory of the Divinity Hidden by the Humanity By His Transfiguration, the Lord showed His disciples how He was going to come on the last day in the glory of His Divinity…
August 18, 2019 The Narthex as a Dynamic Place of Transformation The icon of the Fest of Transfiguration‚ which we celebrate on August 6th‚ is a beautiful metaphor for the union and the reconciliation that Christ brings…
August 17, 2019 Elder Joseph the Hesychast: Spiritual Journey Our natural state is darkness in comparison to divine grace. How much more so when the gloomy demons approach us, which are dark by…
August 17, 2019 Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky): I’m Out of Work as Bishop There is a very special story in the Gospel of Mark about the relation between faith and doubt. One day, people brought a possessed…
August 16, 2019 The Way of Love is the Way of Co-suffering Nicholas Kotar in his book, The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son Book 1), has one of his characters ask a thought provoking question –…
August 15, 2019 How God Kept a Guy Off Another Person’s Treasure We were sitting with my friends one cozy evening and recalling cases of God’s help, in which the events took an unanticipated turn, contrary…
August 15, 2019 Blessed Is the Pure in Heart Blessed Basil the Fool-for-Christ is one of the most well-known fools-for-Christ from Moscow. Russians have always venerated fools-for-Christ – those who rejected outward decorum…
August 15, 2019 Why Mary Is the Most Important Human Figure in Christianity Transitioning from Protestantism to the Orthodox Church a bit over a decade ago was for me a fairly seamless one. I was already well…
August 14, 2019 About the Most Serious Damage of a Person Why do believers have different levels of trust in God? The reasons lie in our thoughts. There are good and damaged thoughts. They are…
