October 12, 2018 Are We Attentive Enough to Reach Salvation in Digital Culture? The Distracted Life Having promised us a technological utopia, our ubiquitous and intrusive cyber-culture has instead precipitated a spiritual crisis in which human…
October 12, 2018 Holy Shroud: What Is It and What Is Its Meaning? If you go into an Orthodox Church between 2 PM on Holy Friday and Easter midnight, you will certainly see a table in the…
October 11, 2018 Parable of the Day: Can We Stop the Flow of Thoughts? A young disciple approached an elderly hermit and complained of being haunted by sinful thoughts. The elder took him outdoors into the open field…
October 11, 2018 Asking about Everyting: How We Should Answer Childern’s Questions about Spiritual Life “After three days they found Him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; and all who heard Him were…
October 11, 2018 St. Theophan the Recluse on Prayer during the All-Night Vigil He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God (Luke 6:12). That’s the foundation and the beginning…
October 10, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Stream Into the Abyss Once upon a time there were three friends who went swimming in a river close to a waterfall. As they crossed the river, they…
October 10, 2018 Why We Cannot Just Have “God Within” Ourselves? Popular New Age thought postulates that everyone has a “god within.” It’s a pleasant way of saying that we’re all special while making “god”…
October 10, 2018 The Symbolism and Meaning of the Unburnt Bush Icon of the Mother of God We perish but aren’t dying Our souls are stripped and bare In flames but not consumed by fire, That’s the Unburnt Bush! – Maximillian Voloshin,…
October 9, 2018 Parable of the Day: Starfish on the Shore A man was walking down the sea shore and saw a boy lifting something up from the sand and throwing it into the sea….
October 9, 2018 Church Canons: a Beginner’s Guide What canons are there in the Church? What do they govern? Do canons restrict people’s freedom or do they help people to exercise their freedom? Why do…
October 9, 2018 Priest’s Response to a Question on Meditation Practices A reader wrote that he had begun to discover himself through Buddhist meditation despite 25 years of Orthodox Christian practice. He asked for my…
October 8, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Thankless Beggar In a certain village, there was a priest. This is a story he told the people who did not go to church on Sundays:…
