February 22, 2021 How Long before Political Correctness Brings Animal Rights Fighters to Start Questioning the Bible? The fine balance between protecting animal rights and attacking humans. People whom we would now call activists have existed in all times. They are…
February 10, 2021 Autonomous Church In the previous article on church structure, we briefly talked about the exarchate, as the lowest level of church self-government, not including, of course,…
February 10, 2021 “What Can the Righteous Do?” I sometimes find that it is very depressing not to live under a rock. If I lived under a rock, I would not know…
February 4, 2021 Orthodox Relics in Venice: Part Two In the previous article, we began to describe the major Orthodox shrines of Venice. We spoke about how the relics of St Mark the…
February 1, 2021 Let Us Revise Our Lives Coronavirus came to this world with the main goal of showing us the need for reappraisal of our values and attitudes in life. You…
January 29, 2021 Orthodox Relics in Venice Everyone visiting Venice is amazed at the abundance of Orthodox shrines assembled in this city over the centuries. In terms of the number of…
January 19, 2021 Monks’ Inventions From the archives Science and education the way we know them did not appear until the 17th and 18th century. Until then, the centres…
January 13, 2021 The History and Tradition of Nativity Scenes The beautiful tradition of putting up a nativity scene on Christmas exists in many homes. Nativity scenes are models of the Bethlehem cave, and…
January 5, 2021 About the Recent Atheists’ “Prayer Experiment” Some atheists refer to an experiment performed in the US and funded by the Templeton Foundation with a view to determine the effectiveness of…
January 2, 2021 The Meanings Behind Liturgical Objects: An Artoclasia Tray An artoclasia tray is a liturgical vessel that holds the bread, wine, oil and wheat to be blessed in a vigil service. It holds…