November 16, 2020 Can You Be Too Virtuous? Is it possible to be excessively virtuous? The question might seem ridiculous and yet one can find in the Church Fathers comments saying even…
November 15, 2020 What are the Signs of Developing Pride? Answering a reader’s question, psychologist Alexander Tkachenko talks about identifying pride at its roots. I would view the development of pride as a path…
November 15, 2020 The Gadarene Demoniac Luke 8:26-39 Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there…
November 14, 2020 Why Does the Orthodox Church Not Bless People to Stage Revolutions? This question was answered by St Paul the Apostle at the very beginning of Christianity. He explained that regardless of how bright the ideas…
November 14, 2020 The Hardest and Most Important Ascetic Labor When we think about the saints, we very often imagine their lives to be an unceasing movement from earth to heaven, a continual going…
November 13, 2020 The History and Meaning of the Catapetasma Almost every church has a curtain separating the central nave from the altar. Historically, such a curtain appeared even earlier than the actual altar…
November 12, 2020 The Symbolism and Splendour of Gold in Church Art (Part 2) Part 1 How did gold come to be used in church art? Why does it adorn the images of the saints? Is gold still…
November 11, 2020 The Symbolism and Splendour of Gold in Church Art (Part 1) How did gold come to be used in church art? Why does it adorn the images of the saints? Is it true that it…
November 11, 2020 Sumerian Roots of the Forefathers’ Longevity Everyone reading the Bible must have noticed that our forefathers lived for a tremendous number of years, sometimes reaching a thousand-year milestone, as in…
November 10, 2020 On Celtic Orthodoxy My “inside minor” when I was doing doctoral studies in theology at Duke, was the history of the Church in the British Isles, particularly…
November 10, 2020 Bewailing Our Sins From ‘The Parable of a Robber who was Saved for the Sake of his Few Tears’ Contrition of the spirit and lamentation of the heart…
November 10, 2020 On the False Dilemma. Choosing between Hell and Hell The rousing online debates about the new wave of Islamist terrorism, triggered by secular obscenity, once again confront us with the need to gain…
