July 26, 2018 Do Our Careers Get in the Way of Being Orthodox Christians? We all live very different lives: someone serves in the Church, someone devotes himself to art, science, there are also actors among us, musicians,…
July 22, 2018 The Pathways to Salvation in the Modern World Putting words on a page often helps to clarify our thinking. In writing The Forgotten Faith: Ancient Insights for Contemporary Believers from Eastern Christianity…
July 20, 2018 Can a Christian Live and not Be Persecuted? “Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” (2 Timothy 3: 12) And the Lord Jesus Christ…
July 16, 2018 What Christianity and Photography Have in Common Author’s note: This article contains some details about photography techniques. However‚ reading it until the end will prove highly beneficial. There is no secret…
July 13, 2018 Why More Honorable than the Cherubim? A question from my In Box: Is the Theotokos seriously “more honorable than the cherubim and more glorious than the seraphim”? Doesn’t that praise…
July 8, 2018 What the Holy Scripture Says about Cremation In the town where I live, funerals have become rather rare. I hear this is true throughout our country. People now have a “Celebration…
July 8, 2018 Fr. Moses Berry: From Hippie to Orthodox Christian You wouldn’t suspect that the jovial Orthodox priest who carries the gold chalise with such reverence from behind the iconostasis of “Mother of Unexpected…
June 29, 2018 Post-Christian Culture: The Coherence between Our Creeds and Our Deeds It is time for Orthodox Christians to be realistic and not panic about life in an increasingly post-Christian culture. We are a tiny minority…
June 24, 2018 St. John of Kronstadt on the Burden of Priesthood “Dear brethren, priests and co-pastors of Christ’s flock! The greatest of callings has been entrusted to us from God. We are clothed with the…
June 20, 2018 To Take Up Your Cross, or to Wash Your Hands of It? A Conversation About the Gospel with Priest Alexei Uminsky, published by the “Nikeya” publishing house in 2011. It is very difficult to speak…
June 20, 2018 “I Found God and Did not Need Anything Else!” We make our way through life within the framework of our time on earth. The time we have left continues to run forward. The…
June 13, 2018 The Danger of Dishonest Dialogues The term “dialogue” (along with its synonyms, “conversation” and “discussion” and “engagement”) seems to have taken its place alongside the proverbial terms “motherhood”,…
