November 25, 2019 “Outside the Camp”: What we can learn from Saint Athanasios the Great The Early Life of Saint Athanasios Athanasios was born in the last decade of the third century in Alexandria Egypt, then the cultural and…
November 25, 2019 Holy Fathers on Combating Bad Thoughts The devil doesn’t attack a man unless he spoils his mind first. After all, a good thought protects a person, a good thought is…
November 24, 2019 Purple Parchment Manuscripts. Unique Examples of Book Art Black on white. We are so accustomed to this phrase that it is quite unusual to see some text written on a different surface….
November 23, 2019 On Providence and Evil When I appear on the radio, people often ask me questions about God’s stewardship of the world. We Christians believe in God’s Providence: we…
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 22, 2019 Blood that Cries and Capital Punishment The question was recently put to me whether I could bring myself to pull the switch to execute someone sitting in an electric chair…
November 22, 2019 We Must Read God’s Word, Even If We Can’t Understand Much Many of today’s Christians are almost completely unfamiliar with the word of God. They have read and studied all the worldly things a thousand…
November 22, 2019 The Problem of the Third Hour Troparion Interpolation The Orthodox have celebrated the Liturgy for more than two thousand years. The Liturgy has gone through a great deal of development, evolution and…
November 21, 2019 The Archangel Michael Inscriptions and the Angels of the Church Let’s take a look at a 14th century icon in the Byzantine Museum, Athens. It represents the Archangel Michael, leader of the heavenly armies….
November 21, 2019 The Angelic World is Real We depict the Holy Archangel on icons as a warrior, bearing a sword and clad in armor. We always introduce human images into our…
November 21, 2019 Our Mosaicists’ Impressions of Staying in the Docheiariou Monastery on Mount Athos While making mosaics at the Docheiariou Monastery on Mount Athos, the artisans of our workshop really took a glimpse into the monastery life. They…
November 20, 2019 “God Has Come!” I think that each of us, regardless of age and spiritual experience, needs words of strengthening. Because a person is struggling during his life;…
