The Akathist Hymn: “Glory to God for All Things” This Akathist, also called the “Akathist of Thanksgiving,” was composed by Protopresbyter Gregory Petrov shortly before his death in a prison camp in 1940. The title is from the words of Saint John Chrysostom as he was dying in exile. It is a song of praise […]
Hagia Sophia Frightens Muslim Turks
By Niko Hilodakou From the moment that Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and Mohammad Fattish entered the great Church of Saint Sophia on his white stallion, he remained transfixed for a long time by the icon of Christ in the dome. This is according to Turkish sources. This immense Church of Orthodoxy became the epicenter […]
The Reason Obama Is President… from Pravda!
By Xavier Lerma What do you think it means when Pravda publishes a piece like this?! The reason America has the trillion dollar war monger Obama as president today is because of immorality and materialism in America. President John Adams once said,
This Year’s Elections
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Since political elections normally deal with matters of policy, I do not normally make them the subject of pastoral concern. This year, however, the national elections in our country are not concerned simply with policies but with principles. My first comment, I suppose, should address that difference. About policies—most questions […]
Orthodox Christian Responsibility in the Public Arena
by Fr. John A. Peck This coming Sunday is Pulpit Freedom Sunday. I think it is a sad state of affairs that we should even need such a Sunday, but we do, primarily because Christians in America have avoided or ignored their responsibility to participate in the political arena as Christians supporting Christian moral teaching. […]
The Crisis of Today, the Church of Tomorrow
A word from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, circa 1970 From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge—a Church that has lost much. It will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. It will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices it built in […]
Another Family Targeted Over Home Bible Study
It seems that we are no longer allowed even to read the Bible in our homes or gather for prayer anymore. I wonder how many people are allowed to gather without breaking the law. I do have a solution. Check in tomorrow to find out what it is. by Dave Bohon Another U.S. community is […]
Covering Warfare in a Byzantine Maze – Literally
by Terry Mattingly This is Terry Mattingly’s advice for journalists who which to cover what just happened in the OCA. It goes without saying that I have received quite a bit of email from GetReligion readers, and others, wanting to know my take on last Friday’s resignation, and now the ongoing humiliation, of Metropolitan JONAH […]