October 10, 2019   Whitworth University is honored to host Archbishop Benjamin of the Orthodox Church in America. He will hold a discussion on Eastern Orthodox liturgy and liturgical books on Monday, Oct. 14, from 7-8:30 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Hall, Room 111. The event is free and open to the public. Archbishop Benjamin’s visit coincides […]

Archbishop Benjamin will present a lecture at Whitworth University on Monday, October 14th at Whitworth University in Weyerhaeuser 111. The title of his lecture is Orthodoxy Liturgy and Books. This is the first of four lectures sponsored by the Whitworth Library highlighting its exhibit of liturgical books. 

 Reflections in Christ / Fr. Lawrence Farley /October 2, 2019 In the rough and tumble world of online discussion of just about any current theological issue, eventually one is sure to come across a denunciation of the God of the Old Testament.  His detractors deride Him as cranky, vengeful, wrathful, unreasonable, arbitrary, blood-thirsty, and (in the always colourful […]

Come join us Saturday September 21st, 2019 and hear featured speaker and Author, Joy Corey. Published author of two books, The Tools of Spiritual Warfare and The Divine Eros, Joy is a graduate of St. Stephens Course of Orthodox Theological Studies. She is a frequent conference and retreat speaker all over the U.S and Canada. Serving […]

The “sign of the Son of Man” (Matt. 24:30), that is, the Cross, will appear inthe sky in order to proclaim the end of the present world and the coming of theeternal Kingdom of the Son of God. Then all the tribes of the earth shall weep,because they loved the present age and its lusts, […]

Pastors’ Answers The blessed repose of the Most Pure Mother of God is known as the Dormition. But what kind of death in general can be called blessed, “good?” We asked several pastors this question and also asked what kind of death they would like for themselves. A good death is a death in repentance […]

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 1, 2019, 10:25 p.m. By Jared Brown jaredb@spokesman.com(509) 459-5135 Thousands of dollars worth of religious artwork, called icons, line the walls of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls. But it was a $20 mass-produced picture of the Virgin Mary said to have been found in a bargain bin […]

August 7, 2019 · Fr. Lawrence Farley When was the last time you heard a sermon or read an article or blog post on Romans chapter 16? Apart from Rom. 16:1, which describes Phoebe as “a diakonos of the church which is at Cenchrea” (the darling verse of those advocating the restoration of an order […]

Fr. James Guirguis Photo: blog.triv.co.id     The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. (10:1-10) and The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (8:28-9:1) The gospel of Jesus Christ is not complicated. It is a very simple way. St. Paul sums this way up quite well in today’s epistle reading when he […]

Priest John Downie Fr. John Lincoln Downie was born in 1971 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In 1992, he graduated from the Christian Geneva College in the same state (the Biology and Philosophy Department). He spent two years at the Romanian Koutloumousiou Monastery on Mt. Athos (1999—2001), where he was received into Orthodoxy through Baptism. Then Fr. John […]