The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) category features articles on the history, leadership, theology, and contemporary life of the OCA. Explore commentary on Church governance, pastoral issues, current events, and the challenges and opportunities facing the Orthodox Church in America from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
The 25th anniversary of 9/11 raises troubling questions about America’s transformation since September 11, 2001—from the rise of the surveillance state and the War on Terror to the growing emptiness of secular memorials. Explore 9/11, its changing meaning, and the Orthodox Christian response to tragedy, suffering, prayer, and national decline.
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Follow an Orthodox priest’s deeply personal account of living through the COVID era, reflecting on Dr. Fauci, pandemic mandates, the Church, and the difficult path toward forgiveness. Drawing from firsthand experience, this article explores social trauma, spiritual healing, and the Christian call to seek truth, mercy, and reconciliation after one of the most divisive periods in recent history.
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In an era of misinformation and secular hostility, Orthodox Christians must confront distorted narratives online and in the media.
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In a consumerist age, when every niche group spawns its own “culture,” are we preserving authentic Orthodox Tradition? Or do movements such as the Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship threaten to make our drift away from authenticity even worse?
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Christian Doctrine comes foundationally through promise, revelation, and dominical word, and is confirmed through sober ratification in the community.
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The rising techno elite has discovered vitalism in an attempt to revive a crumbling Western Civilization, just as Seraphim Rose predicted. Orthodox Christianity offers a better way.
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For decades, a unified and healthy Orthodox Church has been seen by the U.S. National Security State as a threat to be dealt with.
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As Orthodox Christians who lived through some of the worst decisions ever made by our hierarchs, we need to keep telling our stories about COVID. Pandemics are not going away.
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Americans are bad at holidays. The Orthodox need to teach them, and reach our neighbors with the fullness of the Christian Faith.
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Going on pilgrimage to monasteries is a treasured Orthodox Tradition for the lay faithful. However, for the spiritually immature, pilgrimages can do great harm. Here are reasons to avoid them, if you are not fully prepared to undertake them in the correct spiritual mindset.
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