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Cultivate Your Parish Website

05 September 2010

An average Internet surfer, potential visitor or local resident certainly isn't going to go the extra mile to uncover your community's vitality if they are unimpressed with what they find ...

More Than Just Justice

02 September 2010

For Plato, justice was “based on the idea of good, which is the harmony of the universe.” Now Christians believe that “The Good” equals God and that the harmony of the universe is the peace of ...

Templeton Prize winner Fr. Ayala: Christianity and evolution – not incompatible?

02 September 2010

Evolution and religious beliefs need not be in contradiction. Indeed, if science and religion are properly understood, they cannot be in contradiction because they concern different matters. Science ...

Where Does It Say That In The Bible?

31 August 2010

Every so often, parishioners ask me faith related questions. Upon providing the answer, sometimes the response is "Where does it say that in the Bible?" This is a welcomed question ...

Back in its place

31 August 2010

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia consecrated the icon of Our Saviour on the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. This icon had been bricked up for 80 years until it was recovered and restored

The History and Development of the Orthodox-Oriental Dialogue

30 August 2010

I aim to give a quick survey of the teachings of the major Monophysite figures, whose names the Joint-Commission of the dialogue between the two churches recommended to be added to the orthodox ...

Leave-taking of the Feast of the Transfiguration

18 August 2010

The Lord knows that difficult moments will come to us. He gives these Mount Tabor moments to us so that we will have the courage, knowing that the difficulties will pass, and we will feel the sense ...

Has Our Pursuit of the “American Dream” Become a Ball and Chain?

17 August 2010

Has our pursuit of this dream gotten out of hand today? From a Christian perspective has the pursuit of the good life here in America supplanted or replaced our pursuit of the Kingdom of Heaven? Are ...

The History and Development of the Orthodox-Oriental Dialogue

16 August 2010

In the previous article, I discussed the problems that subverted the Ecumenical dialogue. I tried to analyze why the approach led to a dead end and called for a fresh start with a proper approach. In ...

The Orthodox “I really like their hats!”

11 August 2010

His father gets apoplectic and screams at him, in a line that was objectively funny and incredibly sad, "Isn't that the group that mutilates squirrels?" That's what the world, at ...

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