I have had conversations in recent comments sections on the role of reason in the Orthodox life. I readily acknowledge...
One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home...
The Very Rev’d Protopresbyter Fr. Stephen J.F. Maxfield Contemporary homosexual culture? How can we talk of such a thing? What...
Ahmed was born in the seventeenth century to a Muslim family in Constantinople. By profession he was a copyist in...
This Woman lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. She...
Stathis Avramidis This article aims to identify swimming-related artwork from Paleolithic times up to the present day and to assess whether...
“Now crisis, (judgment) is upon this world;” (John 12, 31) The crisis of the whole world is this. The crisis...
St. Thaddeus the Holy Apostle of the Seventy – Commemorated on August 21 (detail from a larger icon which includes that...
People living in Colorado Springs wondered why their rain water barrel was almost empty every day. They set up a...
The Transfiguration is at the very heart of Christian theology, irresistibly commanding the gaze of the iconographer, the ready pen...
It was written by an 8-year-old named Danny Dutton, who lives in Chula Vista , CA . He wrote it...
Make muscle pain a memory with ginger When Danish researchers asked achy people to jazz up their diets with ginger,...
On August 15, the Dormition of the Mother of God is celebrated by most Christians in the world. The Church...
Sermon (3) by St. John of Damascus LOVERS are wont to speak of what they love, and to let their...
Sermon (2) by St. John of Damascus THERE is no one in existence who is able to praise worthily the...
Sermon by St. John of Damascus THE memory of the just takes place with rejoicing, said Solomon, the wisest of...
by St. Gregory Palamas Both love and duty today fashion my homily for your charity. It is not only that...
Although probably not unknown in the early Church, the earliest references to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary appear in the 4th...
Who is she who rises resplendent, all pure, and bright as the sun? There is no mention of the Dormition...
Why is it really necessary for Christians to pay attention to the death of Mary the Mother of Jesus? Does...
