May 25, 2020 Can the Gospel of the Blind Man be Used to Support Belief in Reincarnation? Question: We can look at the story about the blind man in the Gospel of St. John as yet another testimony to the existence…
May 12, 2020 What Should I Do if I See the Dead in My Dreams? Man is the image and likeness of God. The greatest creature on earth. You can even say that the Earth and everything on it,…
May 12, 2020 What Should We Do if the Sin That Has Been Confessed Continues to Disturb Our Consciences? What do you do if you have confessed a sin but it still bothers your conscience? Should you confess it again? Father Andrei Chizhenko…
May 9, 2020 Why Did God Give Freedom of Choice to Fallen Man? Question: Please tell me why did God give free will and free choice to fallen man? For according to the holy fathers, people cannot…
May 7, 2020 Step Down, or What Dangers Await a Priest in Today’s World? The Path Without Compromise. The Internet today is full of various sharp publications or videos related to the clergy. Occasionally, priests themselves voice concerns…
April 29, 2020 How to Pray for Love: The Priest’s Opinion To begin with, in brief: for a Christian, praying for love always means praying for the family, and the prayer can be as simple…
April 29, 2020 Orthodox How To: Why Do We Sing So Much? Why do we sing so much? It’s hard to find anything in Orthodox worship which isn’t sung. This is because traditional Jewish services were…
April 28, 2020 Radonitsa. Why Did Christ Not Do Away With Physical Death? One week after Easter, the words “Christ is risen – He is Risen, indeed” still reverberate in our ears. People usually go to the…
April 25, 2020 Descent into Hell: Where Is It in Scripture? Question: Where in Scripture can one find verses that the Savior brought up from hell all the righteous and repentant? Answer: About the Savior’s…
April 24, 2020 Questions You’ve Always Intended to Ask about Orthodox Worship but Never Got Around to It I originally intended this to be a short introduction to a new series on the Divine Liturgy, but somehow it got out of control,…
April 23, 2020 How Should One Understand the Words “In the Beginning Was the Word”? Question: How should one understand the words “In the beginning was the Word”? Answer: In the first verse of the fourth Gospel, of the…
April 22, 2020 The Prospects of Living Without Church: Online Confession and Communion as in the 4th Century A fragment of a conversation with Archbishop Theodosius (Snigiryov) of Boyarka, suffragan bishop under Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine. In view of…
