July 6, 2021 Paxton Smith and the Global Culture of Loss and Disorientation Paxton Smith, a high school valedictorian from Texas, gave an abortion rights speech at graduation that went viral on the Internet. Swapping the agreed…
July 5, 2021 St Barsanuphius about the Lack of Patience and Making Enemies Our pride is the most important reason why we have enemies. Every time our neighbor offends us, we lay all the blame on him;…
July 5, 2021 Is Praying to Mary and the Saints Really Okay? When I first began to investigate Orthodoxy, my main stumbling block to conversion was prayer to Mary and the saints. My Protestant formation had…
July 4, 2021 On the Sunday of All Saints of America In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Last week the Church celebrated the great feast…
July 3, 2021 Why Does Jesus Never Call Himself God? And Since He Is, How Can He Be Human at the Same Time? Modern readers of the Bible are often let down by their ignorance of the Old Testament Jewish culture and the biblical context. The Jews…
July 2, 2021 The Newborn Christian Church — the Early Years To an onlooker, the Church at the beginning of its history was more like a community of friends of Jesus than a fundamentally new…
July 2, 2021 What Makes Goodness Good? Mark 13: 1-8; 2 Pet. 1: 1-10 St Peter writes, “… You must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness…
July 1, 2021 Akathist to Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Kontakion I Chosen wonderworker and superb servant of Christ, who pourest out in the latter times inexhaustible streams of inspiration and multitude of miracles….
July 1, 2021 A Sermon at the Fireplace and Other Parables One parishioner who used to always attend the Liturgy on Sundays suddenly stopped going to church. After some time the parish priest decided to…
July 1, 2021 The Returned Voice and Miraculous Help from St Amphilochius of Pochaev From an interview with the abbot of the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra, Metropolitan Vladimir (Moroz) The mercy of God is manifested in all times;…
June 30, 2021 Stele of Merneptah: an Archaeological Find Proving that the Events in the Book of Exodus Really Took Place The long-term slavery of the Hebrews by the Egyptians and the events of their exodus from Egypt is one of the darkest and most…
June 30, 2021 Why Is Pentecost the Birthday of Our Church? The feast of the Shavuot, or Jewish Pentecost, was approaching. On this day in the old times, God gave His chosen people the Law…
