Source: Saint Barnabas Antiochian Orthodox Church     I recently had a conversation with an Eastern Orthodox priest, whose twenty-six year old son recently left home for an indefinite stay at a Buddhist monastery. The priest was heart broken. His son was not a stranger to Eastern Orthodoxy or to its monastic tradition either, having spent time at several Orthodox monasteries, and even... 

Source: The Pueblo Chieftain Online         October. 2009   As a former Lutheran and a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., I feel compelled to comment on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s recent decision to permit individual congregations to appoint openly homosexual, partnered clergy, and to bless same-sex marriages.   Although... 

Source: The Orthodox Light             America, has become the most religiously diverse nation in the world. There are more Muslim Americans than there are Orthodox Christians by far, more Muslims than Jews. Los Angeles, according to Harvard scholar Diana Eck, is the most complex Buddhist city in the world. You can now spot Hindu temples and Muslim mosques dotting... 

Source: Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral         I have been asked: “How do we accept individuals into the Orthodox Faith?” Should we “rebaptize?” Must everyone be “chrismated?” Is it enough “only to hear their confession?” Traditionally the Orthodox Church has three means of accepting someone into Orthodoxy: 1) Baptism,... 

Source: Cleveland Prayer Group Website     It is always difficult in these relativistic times, when the only heresy is to speak of heresy, to present the Orthodox teaching about the completeness of our faith. It comes across often as arrogance when in fact we do not mean that we are anything special at all, we readily confess our weakness, but this treasure we have received is indeed a... 

Source:  Real Live Preacher   Last Sunday was the 4th of 13 in my sabbatical time. Each of them is precious to me. Each week I am choosing a place and a way to worship. I’m not a church tourist, hoping to see new things. I’m seeking spiritual experiences. I want to worship. Saturday night Jeanene and I still hadn’t decided where to go. I experienced something common to our culture... 

Source: The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, England          I was born a Hindu, became a Christian at the age of 22 and have been an Orthodox Christian for ten years. I was brought up with yoga. My grandfather was a friend of one of the founders of modern yoga, Swami Sivananda, who used to send his books on yoga to my grandfather along with a vitamin-rich... 

Source: Orthodox Research Institute   (…For at it they who worshipped the stars, were taught by a star to adore Thee, the Sun of righteousness, and to know Thee the Orient from on high…”) (The Christmas Troparion) The average person today likes to think of himself as a product of the scientific age. He often flatters himself with the thought that he is superior to his ancestors,... 

Source: Orthodox Christian Information Center   An Excerpt from The Hidden Man of the Heart   It is unfortunate that there is widespread confusion, not to mention delusion, in the inexperienced, whereby the Jesus Prayer is thought to be equivalent to yoga in Buddhism, or ‘transcendental meditation’, and other such Eastern exotica. Any similarity, however, is... 

Source: www.pravoslavie.ru   If we have not found ourselves in a Moslem environment due to increased migration and conversion to Islam, many of us have Moslem neighbours. Like all people, these neighbours are different but as a rule they don’t hide their faith or their conviction in its superiority but often make attempts to acquaint people with it.  It is a sad event when, as often...