October 23, 2018 A Wasted Day: Three Main Symptoms The Encounter If you haven’t had an encounter with God, you might have wasted your day. We’ve got to be looking for Him…
October 22, 2018 Q&A with a Priest: What If Doctors Say We Can’t Have Children? Question: Father Andrew, please tell us what to do. We’re married for more than two years now, and we had a church wedding. We’ve found out…
October 18, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Court Attendants of the Lord At that time, Father Nazarius from Valaam Monastery arrived in St Petersburg. He knew the poor nobleman and came to comfort him. The nobleman’s…
October 16, 2018 St. Silouan the Athonite on How God Teaches Us to Love The soul cannot know peace unless she prays for her enemies. The soul that has learned of God’s grace to pray, feels love and…
October 10, 2018 Why We Cannot Just Have “God Within” Ourselves? Popular New Age thought postulates that everyone has a “god within.” It’s a pleasant way of saying that we’re all special while making “god”…
October 9, 2018 Priest’s Response to a Question on Meditation Practices A reader wrote that he had begun to discover himself through Buddhist meditation despite 25 years of Orthodox Christian practice. He asked for my…
October 4, 2018 The Assurance of Salvation: Will We Be Saved no Matter What? Question: Often in Protestant circles and Bible studies one will reference 1 John 5:13, “These things I have written to you who believe in the…
October 4, 2018 10 Unusual Questions About Sin The Hell is a vast territory, which God specially designed to torture the sinners. There are pans with boiling oil, cauldrons, demons with pitchforks,…
October 1, 2018 Goodness: What Is Said in the Scripture about One of the Main Virtues In his list of virtues which comprise the fruit of Spirit working in one’s life, St. Paul lists that of “goodness” (Greek agathosune, αγαθοσυνη)…
October 1, 2018 Q&A with a Priest: Is an Orthodox Christian Allowed to Do Yoga? Question: Dear Father Andrew, please help me to figure out which position to take with regard to yoga as a physical practice. I did…
September 30, 2018 3 Points about Holding on to God in the Most Hard Times “Why?” Why didn’t God stop all of these hurricanes? Why did my friends lose their jobs? Why can’t I stop this bad habit? Why…
September 27, 2018 “The Cross-Bearers Without the Cross”: Who Carries His Cross and Who Doesn’t? Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanic) tries to explain who really carries his cross and who does not. With the Cross Carrying our own crosses…
