June 24, 2018 166 0 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 63 0 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 77 0 “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 87 0 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”,…
June 8, 2018 237 1 The Number of African American Orthodox Christians Appears to Be Growing In 2016, I began a series of interviews with African American Orthodox Christians in four regions of the United States. An integral component of…
June 8, 2018 212 0 The Perfect Priest & the Perfect Presbytera I found this in an old e-mail. I know the ‘perfect priest’ is an adaptation of ‘perfect pastor’ lists that have been around for…
May 24, 2018 91 0 Should We Be Afraid of God? “You shall fear the Lord your God”, – says the commandment of Moses (Deuteronomy 6:13). Then it will be repeated in psalms, in the…
May 23, 2018 220 0 Fr. Stephen Freeman: “The Christian Community that We All Need” I once read that the Russian instinct, when under pressure, was to gather with other people, while the American instinct was to flee. Thus,…
May 22, 2018 74 0 It is “Our” God, Not “Mine”: How the Spiritual Life of Spouses Affects Them By Fr. Sergius Nezhbort People have a hard time trying to let others into their hearts. More often than not, God becomes “my…
May 15, 2018 152 0 What Are We Cultivating in Our Young GirlsToday? Most children learn to identify themselves by what they have been noticed for, early on in their lives by the important people around them….