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Warming the Heart: The Orthodox Spirit in Everyday Life

08 March 2009

For our generation today, we are faced with an opportunity to rediscover what still lies buried in the living memory of Orthodox domestic tradition - a tradition we must either rediscover, or lose ...

The Great Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian and the Moral Person

03 March 2009

Archpriest Joseph Huneycutt

Instead, giving in to the spirit of idle talk, we speak to make ourselves look better, which leads us to be judgmental and slanderous. We live in an age of unprecedented, unbridled, unadulterated ...

The Impact of Orthodox Theology

25 February 2009

Jason Byassee

This vision of doxological theology is at odds with the standard fourfold division of seminary education in the West, which keeps "Bible," "church history," "theology" ...

Life as suffering or life as pleasure?

22 February 2009

Suffering is not the main theme of Christianity, the main theme of Christianity is joy. A person gets obsessed with suffering because of his pride, “Why do I feel worse than the others?” – and ...

Dear Baba: Saturday of Souls

20 February 2009

admin

The Saturday of Souls is in the wisdom of the church placed very precisely. Look at where we are with the Lenten Triodion. The first Saturday of Souls liturgy is on the day before Judgment Sunday and ...

Soul Saturday

20 February 2009

Archpriest Stephen Freeman

Praying for the departed, and doing so with such frequency was easily a part of the Tradition of the Church that seemed not only wise, but so totally essential. I was no stranger to prayers for the ...

Economic Hardship

17 February 2009

For those of us blessed and spiritually challenged with living in relative luxury as we do here in the United States, a time of economic hardship can very well be the very first time in our lives ...

Gender as Prophecy and Revelation

15 February 2009

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

It cannot be that God created male and female simply in order to complicate our lives, visit us with consuming passions or distract us from contemplating paradise. Rather the mystery of human gender ...

Yoga and the Christian Faith

10 February 2009

Dr. Christine Mangala Frost

When I started work on this essay, I decided to test out Déchanet’s recommendations, and practiced some basic yoga postures during my morning prayers; and I found that with some conscious effort ...

Miracle

05 February 2009

I want to tell you a story, Father. A true one that happened in my life. Duty-bound as I was, I had to take my service in Afghanistan. I served in one of special forces’ units. I was assigned a ...

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