Metropolitan Evlogy and the Martyria of Amsterdam
In the 1920s and 30s, after the Russian revolution and the subsequent exodus of Russian refugees to Europe, the then Metropolitan of... Read More
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Transfiguration by Nicholas Sooy
LIGHT appeared from above and everything changed. In the sky there was a great cloud, and the light radiated forth brighter than... Read More
The One Sin for Which the Orthodox Church Gives a Blessing by Fr. Mark Korban
MANY CHRISTIANS today are unfamiliar with the mindset of Christians in the first three centuries of the Christian era. This time period... Read More
A Bag of Bullets by Aaron Haney
And in the Kingdom of God they shall beat their swords into plowshares and the lion shall lie down with the lamb.... Read More
Ethics of the Resurrection + PROTOPRESBYTER JOHN MEYENDORFF
This is a reposting of a post originally found here Human life is inevitably dominated by worries, preoccupations, fears or concerns with... Read More
Race and the Fall By Pieter Dykhorst
By Pieter Dykhorst Racism cannot be addressed in isolation. Racism at its root springs from human divisiveness and our fallen propensity for... Read More
Incorporating Culture: Truth, Reconciliation and the Pathway to Peace
By: Lydia Kemi Ingram After this I looked, and behold a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from... Read More
The Meaning of the Cross
Last year I was sitting with Fr. Andrew Louth and I asked him when do we as Orthodox Christians celebrate peace? Holy... Read More
What Are You Fighting For?
Hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Aldea was in Paris shortly after the November 2015 attacks in Paris. In the following, written shortly after the attacks, he reflects on peace and violence in light of these attacks. In the addendum, written two months later, Fr. Seraphim responds to some criticisms of his initial reflection.
That the World May Believe
While we confess in the Creed that the Orthodox Church is one, where must an observer look to see our theological, mystical, or true oneness? We have hidden it from ourselves and the world by our
behavior. Because of our pervasive fear, self-interest, and insularity, the visible unity of the Church exists only as a broken promise.