September 25, 2019 10 Reasons Bivocational Ministry Matters “I didn’t come to seminary to be a bivocational minister, to have to get another kind of job,” my student told me. I may…
September 25, 2019 Grand Princesses’ Dolls I was standing in front of an icon depicting St. Joachim and St. Anna and the little Virgin Mary, and I thought that all the saints…
September 24, 2019 Be Here Now: Stability as Virtue “A tree which is often transplanted does not bear fruit.” St. Euthymius the Great Let us take some time to contemplate the importance of…
September 20, 2019 The House of the Mother of God in Loreto Today, the Holy House in Loreto (or as it is called by the Italians, Santa Casa) is one of the most revered shrines associated…
September 18, 2019 Do Orthodox Christians Need Sports? We need sports to work and fight – at least to fight with ourselves. Also, to transform a band of young bullies into a…
September 16, 2019 Staying Orthodox in an Anti-Christian Environment After summer many young people are facing the prospect of heading off to college, some for the very first time. A scripture passage comes…
September 13, 2019 Why Orthodox Christians Celebrate the New Year on the First of September The first day of September is celebrated as the Ecclesiastical or Church New Year by Orthodox Christians. It is also a day marked by…
September 12, 2019 Say No to Cartoons: Reclaim Childhood I used to work as a babysitter in a family where cartoons were a kind of reward and, accordingly, a ban on them was…
September 12, 2019 Back to School: What Is the Key Focus of Education and Parenting? At the dawn of my youth, when I was eighteen, I came across a sci-fi novel. I can’t recall the author or the title…
September 9, 2019 Fyodor Dostoevsky: 25 Basic Rules of Life “To love a man means seeing him as God intended him to be.” Compassion is the most important and, perhaps, the only law of…