December 13, 2018 92 0 “Do not Pre-celebrate Christmas!” or Some Features of the Orthodox Advent Season The Advent Season, which began for us on November 15/28, is a time for anticipating the “Good News” of the Lord’s Birth. As with…
December 12, 2018 150 0 What Does Physical Health Mean for Orthodox Christians? There’s a slim chance of finding someone who will openly claim that she wants to be sick. It seems natural to want to be…
December 9, 2018 58 0 Lost Keys or How We Look for the Truth in Wrong Places Last week, I dropped by a friend’s house and found him on his hands and knees in the front yard. He was frantically searching…
December 8, 2018 113 1 Annunciation as the Beginning of the Nativity Story And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy…
December 2, 2018 2429 0 What Was the Fruit That Adam and Eve Ate? And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the…
November 29, 2018 95 2 How Advent and Christmas Are Losing Their Sense in the Modern World So… they’ve taken Christmas out of Christmas and put it in Advent, and they’ve taken Christ out of Advent, except it’s not really Advent…
November 27, 2018 140 0 The Problem of Our Sticky Souls “If we desire to be in good things after the death of this body, let us take every care that our soul does not…
November 25, 2018 85 0 Some Thoughts on Politics and Christian Spirituality In today’s heated political season it is important not to get distracted. Saint Paisios warns, “Now days, too much “world”–an excess of secular spirit–has entered…
November 13, 2018 71 0 Prayer Support or Why We Can Not Run from our Life and Troubles I’ve never liked running. In fact, I dreaded those fated days in gym class when we’d have to run the mile. I just knew…
November 8, 2018 95 0 What Does It Mean to Be a Good Priest? I lost my patience recently. Then, I lost my temper. These are two things that I rarely experience, and, as self-flattering as this pronouncement…