August 23, 2020 62 0 How to Be the First Among Christians? This is not about a church career or competition. If you want to be a leader among believers, become a servant to them. The…
August 21, 2020 137 0 Why Are There So Many Curses and Cruelties In The Psalms? The Old Testament is not the “good” part of the Holy Scriptures: the Fall, the Flood, captivity, executions, idolatry, and lots and lots of…
June 23, 2020 1023 2 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 711 0 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 1185 0 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 197 0 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 1405 1 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 174 0 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 331 1 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 518 2 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…