Want a bigger, better, healthier brain? Get serious about your spirituality and avoid the ‘I’m spiritual but not religious’ canard, which statistically leads to a higher instance of mental problems. True theology and praxis really is therapeutic, after all. The reason that religion or spirituality appears to protect people with a familial risk of depression […]
The Difference Between Orthodox Spirituality and Other Traditions
by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos Orthodox spirituality differs distinctly from any other “spirituality” of an eastern or western type. There can be no confusion among the various spiritualities, because Orthodox spirituality is God-centered, whereas all others are man-centered. The difference appears primarily in the doctrinal teaching. For this reason we put “Orthodox” before the word “Church” […]