August 8, 2018 Parable of the Day: You Have to Live Here and Now! There was a carpenter — and a good carpenter he was, indeed — who liked to put everything off until a later time. As…
August 8, 2018 “Every Christian Is an Icon Painter!” We haven’t heard about iconoclasm for many centuries now. Icons are no longer destroyed, like they were in the 8th and early 9th century….
August 8, 2018 The Fall of the Devil: Is It an Orthodox Belief? A friend wrote: “My kids want to know where we got the story of the fall of the devil… How he was originally an…
August 7, 2018 Parable of the Day: How Is Love Supposed to Unite Us? Here is a parable passed on to us by the Holy Fathers. Imagine a circle on the floor. In the middle of this circle…
August 7, 2018 How Could We Teach Our Children to Fast? Teaching children to fast is very basic in an Orthodox Christian upbringing, like teaching them to pray. The question of when and how strictly…
August 7, 2018 St. Seraphim of Sarov: Why Did Even that Holy Man Need Asceticism? Saint Seraphim of Sarov is one of the pillars of the Orthodox faith in the Russian lands. Most Orthodox believers know his biography. We…
August 6, 2018 The Main Problem of the Transfiguration My bishop recently shared the story of a young man whom he taught some years ago. He was Orthodox from Estonia. He grew up…
August 6, 2018 Parable of the Day: How to Understand What People Are around You Once upon a time, there was an old man sitting by an oasis near the gates of a Middle Eastern city. A young traveler…
August 6, 2018 St. John the Russian Fund Organised Pilgrimages for People with Special Needs Recently, volunteers of the Fund in honour of St. John the Russian have organised two pilgrimages for children and adults who live in boarding…
August 5, 2018 Why Spiritual Ignorance Is so Dangerous for a Christian I remember, as an undergraduate student in a university chemistry laboratory, a fellow student who was having tremendous difficulty understanding the basic principles of…
August 5, 2018 St. Nikolai Velimirovich on How God Whitens the One Who Repents Though your sins be like scarlet, they may be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool…
August 5, 2018 3 Steps of Becoming an Orthodox Christian So, you’re exploring the idea of joining the Orthodox Church? Relax! It is a joyful and well worn path, with many souls who…
