June 12, 2019 · Fr. Stephen Freeman I recently bought a pickup truck, a twenty-five year-old clunker that runs ok. I paid $600 for it and have been slowly tending to the little fixes that it requires. It’s old enough to lack the computerization that puts vehicles beyond the reach of a shade-tree mechanic. My father and […]

Επίσκεψη υποψήφιων διδακτόρων Θεολόγιας από την Αμερική στην Ναύπακτο Τό διήμερο 5-6 Ἰουνίου ἐ.ἔ. ἐπισκέφθηκαν τόν Σεβ. Μητροπολίτη Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου κ. Ἱερόθεο στήν Ναύπακτο ὁμάδα ὑποψηφίων διδακτόρων τοῦ Διδακτορικοῦ Προγράμματος Ὀρθοδόξων Σπουδῶν (PhD Program in Orthodox Studies, The Antiochian Orthodox Institute, Antiochian House of Studies) μαζί μέ μέλη τῶν οἰκογενειῶν τους, ἀπό τήν […]

Fr. Michael Harper SOURCE: Orthodox Research Institutehttp://orthochristian.com/61203.html I hear occasionally from someone who sometimes accuses the Orthodox Church of being “foreign”, and so unsuitable for the British. A few days ago he sent me a card saying “the word in English is Easter”. My reply was “the word in Greek (and, therefore, English), is Pascha”. This […]

“By descending into Hell, He made Hell captive. He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh. And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry: Hell, said he, was embittered, when it encountered You in the lower regions. It was embittered, for it was abolished. It was embittered, for it was mocked. It was embittered, for it […]

From staff reports St. Luke Orthodox Christian Church in north Spokane will celebrate its first Pascha, or Easter, service at midnight Saturday, one week after the Western Christian Easter. The church was formed in the summer 2018 and meets at Valley Prairie Hall, 8216 E. Big Meadows Road, in Chattaroy. The goal of the Church […]

Fr. Lawrence Farley I suppose that the adjective “Pentecostal” in the title should be placed in scare quotes, because by “Pentecostal Orthodoxy” I do not refer to a combination of Protestant Pentecostalism and Orthodoxy, but that Orthodoxy itself is essentially Pentecostal. In his book The Orthodox Church (then) Timothy Ware described the Orthodox Church as “a continued […]

JULY 4, 2016 BY FR. JOHN A. PECK by the Rev. Dcn. Dr. Timothy J. Wilkinson The protestant Evangelical world has, for many years now, appropriated the Jewish Seder service in an attempt to ‘reconnect’ with something more ancient, and I would contend, something more authentic. We offer this excellent piece by Dcn Tim Wilkinson, Reprinted (with […]

Fr. Lawrence Farley I suppose that most pastors have had the experience of a young parishioner approaching them privately and confiding in them their suspicion or decision that they were gay, bisexual, or transgender. Such confusion is in the air, has the Nihil Obstat of both secular culture and governmental sanction, and also bestows a kind of […]

by Caitlyn Sargent (Posted 4/3/2018) Charita Stavrou who fell asleep in the Lord on March 24th, 2018, dedicated her life to Orthodox missions. She made vestments and ministered to hundreds of people in six African countries. May her memory be eternal! Charita Stavrou passed from this life early Saturday, March 24th, 2018, after battling cancer. Mrs. […]

David Bentley Hart 2015 The long history of defective Christian scriptural exegesis occasioned by problematic translations is a luxuriant one, and its riches are too numerous and exquisitely various adequately to classify. But I think one can arrange most of them along a single continuum in four broad divisions: some misreadings are caused by a […]