by Fr. Boris Dolzhenko –
The danger of heretical teachings lies in the fact that the error is so cleverly veiled, argued, and mixed with true words that the inexperienced person will find it difficult to determine what is right and what is wrong. [Read more…]
Orthodox Christianity
Orthodox Church Boom – Why Young Americans Are Becoming Orthodox Christian
Over the past five years, more than 100,000 Americans have entered the Orthodox Church—one of the most ancient, demanding, and uncompromising forms of Christianity. [Read more…]
Our Lord’s Nativity is an Invitation to Enter Into Reality and Find Healing
by Fr. Philip LeMasters –
Our Lord’s Nativity is not a momentary escape from reality, but an invitation to enter into reality itself and find the healing of our humanity in Him. [Read more…]
Christ is the Head – Otherwise, Everything Falls Apart
by Met. Luke (Kovalenko) –
The preeminence of Christ should be in all our life’s initiatives: in words, deeds, conversations, in our relationship to everything happening around us. [Read more…]
10 Essential Conditions for Coming to Know God’s Truth and Finding Life
by Fr. Thomas Hopko –
1. The belief that the truth of things can be known, and the desire to know the truth and to do it, wherever it leads, is most essential. Indeed it is everything. [Read more…]
What is Heresy – An Orthodox Christian Teaching
St. Nectarios Educational Series –
Heresy and heretics have existed from the time of the Apostles and exist today whether as sects outside the Church or heretics in disguise within the Church (or so it appears). [Read more…]
Honoring the Memory of Charlie Kirk, a Witness for Christ and Truth
by Fr. Peter Heers –
Charlie Kirk was speaking the days, the hours, the minutes leading up to his assassination, about the things that are blessed, things that are good in terms of the Gospel and Jesus Christ and moral life and all the rest. [Read more…]
Charlie Kirk’s Example is a Lesson for All Orthodox Christians
by Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) –
What is especially admirable about Charlie Kirk is his willingness to go and speak about the Kingdom of Heaven, about traditional values, about conservative principles in the very places that seemed most unsuitable. [Read more…]
Christian Believers Flee Progressive Religion, Many Find Orthodox Christianity
by James Fite –
Religion has been losing ground in American society for years, and there are many reasons for the decline. But one modern trend is driving believers away from their church homes – and right into the ancient arms of Eastern Orthodoxy. [Read more…]
Extinguish Anger Before it Consumes Us
by Fr. Pavel Gumerov –
It’s not without reason that the Holy Fathers compare the passion of anger, like lust, with fire, flames, a conflagration. “A spark will ignite a flame.” Beginning with a small flash, anger can engulf the soul in a matter of minutes and lead to irreparable consequences. [Read more…]