The Extra/Ordinary Hospitality of St. Herman House
The Church is a hospital, according to St. John Chrysostom, and according to St. Ignatius its sacraments are medicine. It is often repeated that Christ is the Great Physician, and that the spiritual life of the Church heals the sickness of the passion-ridden soul.
The Orthodox Peace Fellowship: An Introduction, IC70
The Orthodox Peace Fellowship: A Fellowship of Orthodox Christian Peacemakers. Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that... Read More
A Sermon From Moscow: A Parish Priest Speaks to His Flock
by Fr. Alexander Borisov Dear friends, our short summer is over. It was, as our poet Alexander Pushkin put it, “a parody... Read More
Then and Now: Confessions of an Outreach Worker
Then, when I saw a homeless person, I saw the dishevelment, shuffling, and shopping cart. Now I see a person with a... Read More
Corporatism or Commonweal?
by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo This is the rule of the most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the... Read More
Building The New City: St. Basil’s Social Vision
by Fr. Paul Schroeder In St. Gregory the Theologian's funeral oration for St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory describes the legacy of... Read More
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker
Saint Nicholas wrote no books nor have any of his sermons or letters survived, but few saints have been the object of... Read More
St. John Chrysostom, Almsgiving, and Persons with Disability
by Ephrem Gall St. John Chrysostom, having sought the face of God through the strictest forms of asceticism in the mountains near... Read More
St. John Chrysostom and the Problem of Wealth
by John D. Jones Wealth ... is like a snake; it will twist around the hand and bite unless one knows how... Read More
Confronting Poverty and Stigmatization: An Orthodox Perspective
by John D. Jones Would you see His altar? ... This altar is composed of the very members of Christ, and the... Read More