October 4, 2018 10 Unusual Questions About Sin The Hell is a vast territory, which God specially designed to torture the sinners. There are pans with boiling oil, cauldrons, demons with pitchforks,…
October 3, 2018 10 Pieces of Advice for Those Who Consider Themselves Christians 1. Know your faith and know how to explain why we confess Orthodox Christianity. “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always…
October 3, 2018 15 Quotes of Spiritual Guidance by Saint Macarius of Optina 1. Faith is the foundation of all goodness you need both in this life and to secure a good fate in the future everlasting eternity….
October 3, 2018 How One Should Read the Holy Scripture in the Right Way Perhaps one of the most memorable verses in the New Testament comes from the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel, “ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος,…
October 2, 2018 Parable of the Day: What Has Sin in Common with Dirty Laundry? Dirty laundry needs to be washed sooner or later. You can dump the dirty clothes into a huge vat to postpone the unpleasant moment…
October 2, 2018 Discussing the Main Reasons for Loss of Faith It’s easy to find testimonies about “deconversion”, aka loss of faith, in the English-language part of the World Wide Web. People who grew up…
October 1, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Child Who Wished to Be a TV Set An elementary school teacher invited her students to write an essay about the gift that they’d like to receive from Santa. She went home…
October 1, 2018 Goodness: What Is Said in the Scripture about One of the Main Virtues In his list of virtues which comprise the fruit of Spirit working in one’s life, St. Paul lists that of “goodness” (Greek agathosune, αγαθοσυνη)…
October 1, 2018 Q&A with a Priest: Is an Orthodox Christian Allowed to Do Yoga? Question: Dear Father Andrew, please help me to figure out which position to take with regard to yoga as a physical practice. I did…
September 30, 2018 3 Points about Holding on to God in the Most Hard Times “Why?” Why didn’t God stop all of these hurricanes? Why did my friends lose their jobs? Why can’t I stop this bad habit? Why…
September 30, 2018 Spiritual Father’s Advice: How to Save My Child in This Modern World? Question: Father Andrew, please tell me how to save my child. My daughter is 11. She’s lost interest in God and doesn’t want to go…
September 28, 2018 Parable of the Day: God’s Piggy Bank There was a rich man who helped the poor, and everybody loved him dearly. He had a big iron piggy bank mounted on his…
