October 5, 2018 Parable of the Day: Searching for Peace Outside and Inside There was an old man who liked fine arts. He was collecting paintings his entire life, and he finally acquired a formidable collection of…
October 5, 2018 The Importance of Visiting Church on Saturday Night “Let us lay aside all earthly cares” (the Hymn of the Great Entrance). Three decades ago, a film came out that codified the…
October 5, 2018 The Quick to Hear: a Rare Icon of the Mother of God from Zograf Monastery This icon of the Most Holy Theotokos is located in Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos. The name of the icon is explained by the…
October 4, 2018 Parable of the Day: Your Salvation Depends on What You Do There was a man who accumulated a lot of wealth. He never wanted to go to church to confess or donate. He had a…
October 4, 2018 The Assurance of Salvation: Will We Be Saved no Matter What? Question: Often in Protestant circles and Bible studies one will reference 1 John 5:13, “These things I have written to you who believe in the…
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…
