November 30, 2019 What is Christian Love in Marriage? What is Christian love in a marriage? What role does it play? And how is a believer meant to “build” this love? Alexander Tkachenko,…
November 22, 2019 Deciding to Enter into Marriage: The First Rule of Marriage In this cycle of conversations on “The Grammar of family life” Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks on how marriage is understood in the Orthodox Church,…
November 19, 2019 Lifehacks of Matushka Elena Matushka Elena Ovcharenko is a mother of eight and the wife of Archpriest Alexander, a priest of the Diocese of Zaporozhye. Personal Motto “Live…
November 16, 2019 Committed Christians Are Now a Minority, and Our Kids Need to Know It I grew up in a smallish town in Arizona (about 25,000 people at the time). Almost everyone I knew fit into one of four…
November 7, 2019 How Long Should the Pre-Marriage Period Last? How long should the premarital period, the period of dating, last? Skilled priests say that it should last at least a year. Why? First…
November 5, 2019 Children Are Their Parents’ Crystal Copies Everyone knows that we raise children, not with words, but with our actions. A child grows and forms in the image and likeness of…
October 29, 2019 Feast of Hell: Sad Consequences of Halloween’s Celebration A bit of history: The ancient population of the islands of Britain, Ireland and parts of modern France celebrated their main feast – Samhain,…
October 22, 2019 Why God Is More Important to Christians than Their Own Children? In 137, a pious woman Sofia, lived in Rome. She had three daughters – twelve-year-old Faith, ten-year-old Hope and nine-year-old Love. All of them…
October 6, 2019 Do the Man and the Woman Remain One Flesh After Their Breakup? Question: Hello. I’m curious, if I had a sexual relationship in the past, I was “one flesh” with that woman, but we had a…
September 12, 2019 Say No to Cartoons: Reclaim Childhood I used to work as a babysitter in a family where cartoons were a kind of reward and, accordingly, a ban on them was…
September 12, 2019 Back to School: What Is the Key Focus of Education and Parenting? At the dawn of my youth, when I was eighteen, I came across a sci-fi novel. I can’t recall the author or the title…
September 6, 2019 Forgiveness in the Christian Family The bonding cement of a Christian community, whether it be a parish or the family, is the ability and the readiness of each of…
