June 23, 2020 Vaccination Issue: Are They Going to Kill Us? Priest Mikhail Zazvonov from Nizhny Novgorod, head of the diocesan department for interacting with medical institutions, is sometimes jokingly called the “chief obstetrician-gynecologist of…
May 30, 2020 Why Do Only Monks Become Bishops? The tradition of ordaining representatives of monastic clergy as bishops is not inherent in the Church at all. The evidence of this is provided…
May 26, 2020 Whom and Why Did Christ Actually Drive Out of the Temple? Some people use the Gospel story about Christ expelling merchants from the Jerusalem temple to substantiate the thesis that a believer has the right…
May 26, 2020 Did Jesus Prophesy the Near End of the World? Jesus is sometimes said to have claimed that the world was coming to an end during the lifetime of His generation and therefore He…
May 25, 2020 Does an Icon Painter Have to Be a Believer? According to the dictionary, icon painting is a type of art. However, this is a very special kind of art, and its definition is…
May 25, 2020 Can the Gospel of the Blind Man be Used to Support Belief in Reincarnation? Question: We can look at the story about the blind man in the Gospel of St. John as yet another testimony to the existence…
May 23, 2020 Why Do the Same Saints Look Different on Different Icons? Orthodox icons are sometimes surprising. We all at least once saw the image of Jesus Christ, written in unusual for our eyes way. Savior…
May 21, 2020 Why Do Boring Churches Last Forever While Exciting Churches Fail? Driving on the freeway in Tulsa a few years back, I saw a billboard advertising a wildly popular church in the area. The ad…
May 15, 2020 Why Are All the Saints on the Icons Alike? Each of us has at least once heard or said an expression “icon-painting face”. What kind of faces are they talking about? Regular features…
May 12, 2020 What Should I Do if I See the Dead in My Dreams? Man is the image and likeness of God. The greatest creature on earth. You can even say that the Earth and everything on it,…
