Contemporary Issues

What Good is Religion?

30 November 2009

All of this begs the question, does religion here in the West have a future, as Freud himself once questioned? Or, will it begin to die a slow, miserable death, as many of its antagonists believe, ...

On the Murder of Father Daniil Sysoev

23 November 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

And if we are to learn a lesson from Father Daniil’s death, it must be that not all religions are created equal. Enough self-deception and false tolerance! May those who continue to repeat that all ...

Byzantine Music for an Orthodox America

18 November 2009

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All these misunderstandings occur because we are very much European in our image of beauty. Beautiful in the Bible does not have any connection with the aesthetically beautiful. Instead of our sharp ...

Question on Problems Which New People Face (Part I)

17 November 2009

Zhanna Menshikova

At first, Orthodox liturgy appears to western senses to be very oriental, something quite foreign - that is part of its attraction for some. But many forget that Christianity is an oriental religion ...

Question on Problems Which New People Face (Part II)

17 November 2009

Things just take time. That’s perhaps something that people don’t always understand. It takes a long time even to begin to become Orthodox, especially if you’re coming from a spiritual and cultural ...

Stolen Souls

06 November 2009

I remember as a kid often saying to my parents, "Hey! I didn’t choose to be here, you know." It was my cute teenage way of putting the blame for my questionable behavior on the ones who did ...

It is Vital for the Orthodox Church to Preach in Social Networks

05 November 2009

Olga Kiryanova

I find it difficult to imagine an Orthodox believer who writes directly to a mufti, disputes with him, and criticizes Islam the way Muslims are writing me to say that Orthodoxy is "a false ...

Halloween: A Solemn Farewell

30 October 2009

Jonathan Hayward

Let's set aside murky questions about where Halloween comes from. There is the question of what Halloween is now, which is far less murky on several counts. Whatever the good, bad, known, or ...

The Loneliness of Modern Man

25 October 2009

The internet has probably made us more connected, in a virtual sense, than we have been in a generation. But, of course, their is an extreme level of volunteerism in this virtual community. If I ...

Common Pro-Abortion Cliches and the Pro-Life Response

11 October 2009

Valerie Protopapas

It has been said that those who define an issue, own that issue. Nowhere is this more evident than in the critical issue of abortion. Abortion propaganda has been presented as fact by, among others, ...

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