November 29, 2022 4178 2 How to Become an Orthodox Christian? Sometimes people baptized in a particular faith decide to switch to another confession or even a different religion. Is it a sin to convert?…
November 19, 2022 39073 12 What Is the Meaning of 9 and 40 Days after Death? Death in Orthodox Christianity is not viewed as the end of our existence. After death, the soul is only temporarily separated from the body….
October 25, 2022 763 2 The Locus of the Image of God in Man: the Body, the Soul, or Both? The Scripture teaches us that God created man in His image: “in the image of God He created him” (Genesis 1:27). But what constitutes…
October 11, 2022 980 8 The Story Behind the Jesus Prayer The Jesus Prayer is a treasure of the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church. It reaffirms in succinct form the two central tenets of…
September 18, 2022 268 0 Theosis, Our Growth in the Likeness of God Theosis as deification Translated from old Greek, theosis means “deification”. It conveys the idea of man’s return to the original image of God and…
September 9, 2022 359 2 The Sayings of Christ Not Found in the Gospels The sayings ascribed to Christ but not found in the Gospels are also called the Agrapha. There are many known Agrapha, some of which…
September 3, 2022 555 0 The Teachings and Practices of the Coptic Orthodox Church “Coptic” means “Egyptian” The Coptic (or “Egyptian”) Orthodox Church of Alexandria was once a part of the Ecumenical Church. Despite the word “Orthodox” in…
August 17, 2022 759 8 Which New Testament Books Could Have Been Left Out of the Canon and Why? The ancient Church used apostolic writings and the Apocrypha, which have also co-existed with bogus texts claiming to be authentic. The Church had to…
August 2, 2022 2144 12 Ivan the Terrible: How Could Faith and Violence Coexist in One Person? The contradictory personality of Ivan the Terrible seems to combine the inner portraits of two antipodes. His pathological cruelty and mass atrocities are a…
August 1, 2022 4136 2 Church Candle. How to Correctly Light Candles for the Living and the Reposed? Church Candle The history of the candle can be traced since the very inception of the Church. This can be seen from the Holy…