August 16, 2018 How Should We React to the Sins of Others? A list compiled by Ugandan seminarian Kiberu George. Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so…
August 14, 2018 Some Words of Advice about Prayer Prayer requires a certain longing of the heart. Certainly discipline is involved; but, and this is merely my opinion, forcing yourself to say prayers…
August 12, 2018 Practical Advice on How to Avoid Lust In the Orthodox Church, there is a battle chest available, providing us with practical ways to resist sin and to actually defeat it. We…
August 10, 2018 Parable of the Day: Why to Waste Time with Prayer? A fisherman was ferrying a man across the river in his boat. The passenger was in a hurry and screamed, “Come on! I’m late…
August 9, 2018 How to Understand You Are Pure Enough A woman was reading the Book of Malachi: When she was reading Chapter 3, she was puzzled by verse 3, “And he shall sit…
August 8, 2018 Parable of the Day: You Have to Live Here and Now! There was a carpenter — and a good carpenter he was, indeed — who liked to put everything off until a later time. As…
August 8, 2018 “Every Christian Is an Icon Painter!” We haven’t heard about iconoclasm for many centuries now. Icons are no longer destroyed, like they were in the 8th and early 9th century….
August 7, 2018 Parable of the Day: How Is Love Supposed to Unite Us? Here is a parable passed on to us by the Holy Fathers. Imagine a circle on the floor. In the middle of this circle…
August 6, 2018 Parable of the Day: How to Understand What People Are around You Once upon a time, there was an old man sitting by an oasis near the gates of a Middle Eastern city. A young traveler…
August 5, 2018 Why Spiritual Ignorance Is so Dangerous for a Christian 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 5, 2018 St. Nikolai Velimirovich on How God Whitens the One Who Repents Though your sins be like scarlet, they may be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool…
August 3, 2018 Parable of the Day: Explaining the Concept of Paradise Saint Innocent (Veniaminov) of Moscow used the following parable to explain the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven to his parishioners. – Imagine…
