April 18, 2021 Clinging to My God Today is the fifth and final Sunday of Great Lent. In a few short days Holy Week will begin. There is one more week…
February 20, 2021 God, Almighty and All-powerful In the early modern and modern ages, there is one common view of God that has taken precedence in philosophy and in culture in…
February 13, 2021 “You Willingly Call Yourselves Slaves!” Of Freedom and Slavery “You willingly call yourselves slaves!” I often get to hear this from the critics of Christianity. It reflects a common…
January 24, 2021 The Unseen Martyrdom “This is the fiercest struggle, the struggle that resists a man unto blood, wherein free will is tested as to the singleness of his…
January 11, 2021 Why Did the Son of God Appear in a Humbled State? In the ways of Divine Providence, the Lord God found a means of revealing Himself to people so that the fire of His Divinity…
January 10, 2021 Dimitri Kuntsevich Shares Memories of His Acquaintance with Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) — The abbot of the Dochiariou monastery, Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis), was a hard-working man who loved simple monastic work. For many Athonite monasteries, a…
December 7, 2020 The Feast of the Entrance and the Protoevangelium of James Much of the hymnography adorning our Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple causes the raising of eyebrows—talk about Mary being…
November 1, 2020 The Ministry of Suffering For those of us who are generally physically healthy, it is easy to assume that the real spiritual life consists of such activities as…
October 20, 2020 “Isn’t It Cowardice to Beware of Diseases and Other Misfortunes?” Let’s Look at the Example of the Apostles Peter and Paul For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: these famous words of the Apostle Paul (Phil. 1:21) have long become…
October 1, 2020 Why Does God Put Us Through Trials? So that we finally believe in Him. The unit for measuring faith has not been invented yet, but its value determines the degree and…
