August 18, 2020 594 1 Why was Elijah the Prophet with the Lord during the Transfiguration? Elijah is one of the most revered prophets in the Russian Church. But unlike Isaiah, Jeremiah or Daniel, he left us no books or…
August 18, 2020 362 0 The Gospel about Money Why are the money changers robbers? And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in…
August 1, 2020 165 1 “You Are Never Satisfied”: Jesus on Whimsical Humanity Whimsical people are never happy. Even God doesn’t suit them. It seems that any argument we make cannot break through the wall of skepticism…
July 19, 2020 194 0 The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: The Healing of a Paralytic In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. When we read the Gospel passages about how Christ raised the…
June 16, 2020 1117 4 Was Jesus a Revolutionary? Myth Some people say that Jesus was a revolutionary and that because of this He was punished by the authorities. Therefore, it is…
June 12, 2020 227 0 The Desire For a Woman: Someone Else’s Wife vs. Your Own Wife Matthew 5:27-32 The apostle Paul continues to unravel the connection between the knowledge of God and morality. We find that after the coming of…
June 2, 2020 684 0 The Q: A Mysterious Collection of Jesus’s Sayings There is a theory that the Evangelists Luke and Matthew used a document with the sayings of Christ that has not survived to this…
May 26, 2020 1183 0 Whom and Why Did Christ Actually Drive Out of the Temple? Some people use the Gospel story about Christ expelling merchants from the Jerusalem temple to substantiate the thesis that a believer has the right…
May 26, 2020 197 0 Did Jesus Prophesy the Near End of the World? Jesus is sometimes said to have claimed that the world was coming to an end during the lifetime of His generation and therefore He…
May 24, 2020 125 0 Would You Rather Be Blind? The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John 9:1-38 If you were given the choice between having your physical sight or having…