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Ian and the Family of Believers

22 March 2010

“What do you mean, Ian goes to church?” other parents and teachers would ask me about my son, who has autism spectrum disorder. “How can he stay still for that long?” Ian would leap out of his chair ...

My First Visit to an Orthodox Christian Church

17 March 2010

By Andrew

As I stood listening and reading along during the Matins service, in the back of my mind I tried to think of the one or two words I would use to describe the experience. The first word that came to ...

More on Dispassion

16 March 2010

Priest Richard Rene

On first appearance, Dispassion seems to be a negative quality; we tend to associate it with coldness, lack of emotion or concern, and even inhumanity. A closer look at this word, however, reveals ...

The Principle of Dispassion

14 March 2010

Priest Richard Rene

When an ordinary human being is deluded into thinking he possesses the personal power to singlehandedly redeem another, something has gone terribly wrong. He has succumbed to a blasphemy of the worst ...

A Visit to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

12 March 2010

Kent Sanders

This morning I drove about 35 minutes to St. Louis’ Central West End for my first experience in a Greek Orthodox church service. Since my wife and son were out of town and I had no responsibilities ...

What is Primary to Orthodox Spirituality?

11 March 2010

Have we begun to know our hearts? Have we started working on our hearts to make them God-like? Are our hearts Orthodox? Or, are we more interested in knowing others hearts, or your own? Do we spend ...

The Healing Power of “Offering”

01 March 2010

Archpriest John Breck

That purpose, in the simplest and most basic terms, is to make an offering of everyone who seeks and longs for eternal communion with the Holy Trinity. As ordained clergy or as laypeople, each of us ...

Adam, Where Are You? Reflections on Adam, Christ, and Us

24 February 2010

Peter Bouteneff

“Adam, where are you: in our historical past? Are you in the same plane of history as Winston Churchill, Leonardo DaVinci, and Plato?” On what basis may we approach this question? To whom may we pose ...

Repentance and Confession

23 February 2010

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

In order to understand what repentance is, one must first think about what sin is. Most often, people liken sin to breaking God’s law or transgressing against God’s commandment. Undoubtedly, such a ...

A Lenten Look at Liturgical Music

22 February 2010

One's favorite liturgical music setting, in fact, can become nothing more than whatever reflects that person's tastes and how well the setting has been sung by the cantors or choir. And, ...

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