The Orthodox Church of Tomorrow
By Todd Starnes Pastors and churches have been banned from helping the thousands of illegal immigrant children housed in border detention facilities run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, clergy in Texas and Arizona tell … [Continue reading]
by Fr. Lawrence Farley One of the benefits of reading history is that it enables one to compare one’s own era with other eras, and so identify the blind spots of former times and as well as the blind spots of one’s own time. As C.S. Lewis once … [Continue reading]
by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) Many people who rarely attend church have a kind of consumer’s attitude towards church. They come to church, for instance, before a long trip – to light a candle just for the sake of it, so that nothing would … [Continue reading]
Although they seem to have forgotten the word, this is obviously iconography in a Welsh Church, in the Medieval European style - Orthodoxy in the life blood of Welsh churches. Built on the site of a 7th century monastery and founded around 1200, St … [Continue reading]
by St. John Chrysostom "To show that it is not true that the soul, when it departs from the body, comes under the dominion of evil spirits, hear what St Paul says: “He that is dead is freed from sin,” (Romans 6.7,) that is, he no longer sins. … [Continue reading]
by Gabe Martini It is not loving to affirm a person in their sin. It is not loving to affirm a person in their rebellion against both God and his created, natural order—not “supernatural,” or “unnatural,” but the way nature was always intended to … [Continue reading]
by St. Vincent of Lerins "Moreover, in the Church itself, all possible care must be taken that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all." Commonitory, Chapter 2 … [Continue reading]
by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis This article is a slightly edited version of a “Mini Study” from The Heavenly Banquet, Understanding the Divine Liturgy (Orthodox Witness, 2008). The Divine Liturgy did not appear ex nihilo (out of nothing). It came from … [Continue reading]
by St. John Chrysostom "Sound doctrine and saving truth are to be learned with accuracy, not from evil spirits, but from the Holy Scripture." On Lazarus and the Rich Man, Homily 2 … [Continue reading]
by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) In the prayer practice of the Early Church, various poses, gestures, and bodily positions were used. People prayed standing, or kneeling in the so-called position of the Prophet Elias – that is, standing on one’s … [Continue reading]