September 7, 2019 Why Celebrate Christian Holidays that Aren’t in the Bible? Aquick perusal of the major feast days on Orthodox Church’s liturgical calendar will show that many of those great feasts are not mentioned in…
September 4, 2019 Miracles Don’t Prove Anything A relative of mine enjoys watching TV shows like “The Battle of Psychics” where wizards and sorcerers of all kinds “perform” miracles: they find…
September 3, 2019 The Bullet and the Egg: Albania at the Crossroads The Church of Christ consists of 15 Local Orthodox Churches. The Albanian Orthodox Church is one of them. What do we know about the…
September 2, 2019 Why Are the Major Cathedrals in Russia Dedicated to the Dormition? In my opinion, there are two dimensions to the interpretation of this phenomenon, namely cultural tradition and religious consciousness. With regard to cultural tradition,…
September 1, 2019 Blessed Church New Year! Blessed and Happy New Year! Why am I saying this greeting to you? Does not the New Year begin on January 1st? Yes, the…
August 31, 2019 Reclaiming the Sabbath At the beginning of September, we celebrate Labor Day. From the earliest days of the Church, work has always occupied a central place in…
August 30, 2019 The Little Entrance: Beginning of Christ’s Public Ministry or Entrance of the Church into the Kingdom? The Orthodox Liturgy is highly dynamic and agile. We see periodic movements of priests and clergymen throughout the service, particularly during the so-called Little…
August 29, 2019 What Is the Future of Christianity and Religion as a Whole? I have been a religious seeker from the earliest age I can remember. I am the type of person who needs to know the…
August 26, 2019 Pouring Water on Acid: The Sad Consequences of Spiritual Ignorance 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 23, 2019 Why Hold Processions? The tradition of religious processions has a very ancient history. It begins, in a sense, as early as the Old Testament times. In essence,…
August 23, 2019 Russian Calvary This week is marked by the memory of the saints of the Solovki. First we celebrated the memory of the translation of the relics…
August 21, 2019 Why Aren’t Women Allowed In The Altar? Why do priests keep women out of the altar? Why are there places in the church that are forbidden for women? Is a woman…
