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 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 8, 2018 St. Sergius of Radonezh as the Example of True Christian Humility A child was born in Varnitsa, Russia, to his parents Cyril and Mary. He was their second child, and they named him Bartholomew. Doubtless…
October 7, 2018 What Christian Tradition Says on the Role of Our Body and Cremation At the dawn of Christianity, when the pagan religions were still dominating the world, the few Christians that were living in the Roman Empire…
October 7, 2018 “Who Ate Prophet Jonah?” or Why It Is Important to Understand the Language of Bible “So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared the Lord…
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…
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 27, 2018 “The Cross-Bearers Without the Cross”: Who Carries His Cross and Who Doesn’t? Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanic) tries to explain who really carries his cross and who does not. With the Cross Carrying our own crosses…
September 25, 2018 Why Do Some People Leave the Orthodox Church? As a priest, I am always concerned about why people leave the Orthodox Faith. Over the years, I have noticed that the problem may…
September 20, 2018 St. Nil of Stolobensk and the Danger of Blasphemy in Our Life Blasphemy is a terrible sin! Every time people joke about sacred objects or actions, lack proper reverence for the saints and all that has…
September 17, 2018 A Convert Problem that Orthodoxy in America Faces Today The Orthodox Church in the United States has problems. One of the problems the Orthodox Church currently suffers in this country is a lack…
September 17, 2018 Fr. Andrew (Konanos): “We All Get What We Ask For” There was a young man who asked God to teach him to love the whole world impartially, without seeking his own profit. He wanted…
