June 24, 2019 “Lord Remembers Those Whom People Forget!” Orthodox Nun on Prayer for the Departed The question “Why do we pray for the dead?” is based on two problems. The first one is the personal relationships between God and…
June 20, 2019 The Death of Christ Destroyed Death and Hell and Released All Its Captives According to the Orthodox doctrine, when Jesus died on the cross, his soul descended into the hell and his divinity destroyed the powers of…
June 18, 2019 Why Is the Church Supposed to Speak All the Languages? Ref. Acts 2: 5-11 “We hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” What an amazing feeling that must have…
June 12, 2019 What Is Our Key to Searching for the Truth? O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. (Ps. 104:24)…
June 6, 2019 Elder Paisios the Athonite Prescribed This Remedy For All Kinds of Illnesses and Problems Bishop Job (Smakouz) on Elder Paisios and spiritual warfare. Volume 3 of Elder Paisios the Athonite’s works deals with spiritual warfare. We Are Here…
June 5, 2019 Elder Paisios Explains Why We Need Theology Theology is the word of God, which is apprehended by pure, humble and spiritually regenerated souls, and not the beautiful words of the mind,…
June 3, 2019 Consumerist Attitude: How We Misunderstand What We Believe in Why are men so preoccupied with heaven and hell? Especially, hell? Why are so few preoccupied with Jesus? They have some incoherent notion of…
June 2, 2019 “Your Joy No Man Taketh From You”: How Are We to Feel Joy of Resurrection in This Cruel World? On Easter Eve, I congratulated all readers of my blog on the Resurrection of Christ. I wrote, “Every year of our God-given life, the…
May 31, 2019 How Reason and Logic Become the Important Elements of Our Spiritual life I was trained as an engineer so I have an orientation to viewing things from a logical and scientific perspective. But this view…
May 29, 2019 Russian Orthodox Philosopher on Why All Believers Are Monks in Fact An excerpt from The Light Shineth in the Darkness by the Russian Orthodox Philosopher S. L. Frank: “A number of monastic orders have…
