September 30, 2019 Why We Need a God of Wrath Every age faces the temptation to remake the true God in its own image—or in other words, the temptation to idolatry. The brutal ages…
September 29, 2019 Responsibility for the Creation The beauty of the world around us attests to the beauty of the Divine. A woman recollected that the priest who brought her up…
September 29, 2019 Two Questions for the Spiritual Father Question: What role does a priest play during a confession? In one church they simply absolved me of my sins without even hearing my…
September 28, 2019 The Unavoidable Law of Life (though this is written for the Church, the law of life applies to all, believers and non-believers) Here is an easy rule to understand:…
September 28, 2019 Original Sin Does the Orthodox Church recognize the original sin? The question may seem strange, because one can often read in popular and publicly available publications…
September 27, 2019 Cross ‘Crucifixion’ – The History of Occurrence One of the first images of the crucified Jesus Christ that have survived to this day dates back to the 5th century. It was…
September 27, 2019 Saint Genevieve of Paris The Orthodox must have heard of the famous Syrian ascetic Symeon the Stylite. Numerous people came to him for advice, including Emperor Marcian (396-457)…
September 26, 2019 Wise Peacemaker: A Monk Who Humbled His Brother for the Sake of the Cell The seventh Beatitude is: Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God (Matthew 5:9). What does it mean? “Those who…
September 26, 2019 The Elevation of the Holy Cross – “I Have Been Given All Authority in Heaven and on Earth.” “On earth”? During the first centuries of Christian history, there was little visible evidence that this – Christ’s final declaration before his Ascension –…
September 26, 2019 Let Us Try to Become “Wise Thieves”: Saints on the Christ’s Cross and the Cross of Everyone of Us The veneration of the Lord’s cross is inseparably connected with the Atonement Sacrifice of the Godman Jesus Christ. By venerating the cross, the Orthodox…
September 25, 2019 Why Do We Not Keep the Old Testament Feasts? St. Paul was once intent upon visiting his new convert church in Corinth, and wrote them that he intended to visit them after passing…
September 25, 2019 10 Reasons Bivocational Ministry Matters “I didn’t come to seminary to be a bivocational minister, to have to get another kind of job,” my student told me. I may…
