Looking for Christ at Christmas
For Evangelicals, it can be very hard to find Christ at the church Christmas program – whatever that happens to be in any given year.
Read more →For Evangelicals, it can be very hard to find Christ at the church Christmas program – whatever that happens to be in any given year.
Read more →How did a day dedicated, in theory, to giving thanks to God for His many blessings go so horribly wrong in our modern culture? How should the Orthodox Church approach this American holiday?
Read more →Americans are bad at holidays. The Orthodox need to teach them, and reach our neighbors with the fullness of the Christian Faith.
Read more →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.
Read more →Strange question right? But, interestingly, Russian choral music in use today is not the ancient Russian tradition. It came out of the 1600s renovations, albeit with some precedent, and accelerated under Tsar Peter the Great. Should we even keep singing it?
Read more →Disaster Response Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Orthodox Christians are not optional. They are necessities, because you can’t wait for the government to help you.
Read more →If the supremacy and infallibility of the Roman Popes were of Apostolic origin, then we would expect to have seen these dogmas “believed everywhere, always, and by all”. Were the Popes really supreme in the 1st Millennium?
Read more →The Roman Catholic Church cannot save the “West”. Rome is, in fact, at the center of destroying it for ideology and profit. Her actions are in stark contrast to the Orthodox Church.
Read more →American society and associated ideologies are noticeably failing Gen Z. Fortunately, discovering authentic Christian Tradition can bring them what they are missing.
Read more →Can Christians who disagree over key doctrines still unite around a common chalice? Maybe they can, and maybe that “unity” can even extend to non-Christians. Welcome to the post-dogmatic world of modern religion, where we all follow “many paths” to the same God.
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