The following statement was approved by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America during a session of the Holy Synod on June 16, 2016 at Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in Rives Junction, MI. It is approved for posting and use by all dioceses, parishes, institutions and monasteries of […]
Interview with Rick Wiles on TruNews
TruNews this morning posted a story on St. Paisios – a beautiful thing for a program whose audience is primarily made up of protestants. In the spirit of this, and due to many requests for it, I’m posting the interview I had with Rick Wiles on TruNews on surviving persecution and preparing for the underground […]
‘Ebola Warrior’: Rock Musician turned Orthodox Priest Discusses Mission
by Clayton Gefrey As a young Greek immigrant raised in Melbourne, Australia in the 1960s, Themistocles Adamopoulos was once an atheistic rock star, a founding member of popular Australian group The Flies sharing the stage with the Rolling Stones. It wasn’t until he entered his 20s that he found himself connected to God through what he […]
Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity ‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’
by Thomas D. Williams Welcome to the program, Dick. In a text that is coursing about on social media, professional God-slayer Richard Dawkins begrudgingly admitted that Christianity may actually be our best defense against aberrant forms of religion that threaten the world. “There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings,” Dawkins […]
The Time Is Now
The Greatest Movement of Muslims Turning to Christ is Happening NOW Muslims are coming to Christ in amazing and mysterious ways. Men and women have met Christ in a dream or vision. Many others read the Qur’an in their own language for the first time (they memorize the Qur’an in Arabic) and realized they were […]
The First Orthodox Convert in North America
by Ryan Hunter and Nicholas Chapman When we think of the pilgrims, who came to the American continent from England to start a new life and a new country, we think of Puritans and Calvinists. But how many of us know that one of the largest landowners in the state of Virginia, a personal friend […]
Atheism in Decline and will be Defeated by Faith, says Oxford Professor
by Harry Farley And you know what atheists do, historically, when they are losing. Atheism is in decline and will be trumped by faith, the professor of science and religion at the University of Oxford has said. Professor Alister McGrath made his predictions during the annual Parchman Lectures at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, the […]
Orthodoxy in the American Public Square
by Fr. Alexander F. C. Webster The prevailing political and cultural elites in America are succeeding, steadily and surely, in plunging our society into a post-Christian vortex that bears a striking resemblance in many ways to the formative centuries of the ancient Church. Faithful early Christians had to endure an inhospitable culture and a decadent ethos, […]
Orthodox Priest Brutally Gunned Down in Kiev
An Orthodox priest in Kiev is in a critical condition after being shot twice in the head Saturday night, Ukrainian and Russian media report. Roman Nikolaev, a priest in the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was shot outside his home in northern Kiev late on Saturday night, and is listed in critical condition. […]
Statement on Same-Sex “Marriage”
by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia When our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ instructed His Apostles to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s (Matthew 22:21), He foretold of the future what was already true in the days in the Roman Empire: […]