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Building an Orthodox Christian Home

29 July 2009

In 2009, the accelerating rate of change, the spinning pace people keep, and the lack of quiet is an enemy that contends for our souls and the hearts of our children. We don’t know how to be still or ...

Modest frumpy!Attractive Clothing for Christians on the Make

28 July 2009

The question of how to dress is an important one for Christian singles because we're called to be humble people, both in our behavior and our appearance. But, we are not required to put up a ...

Asceticism: the Bridge between Marriage and Monasticism in Orthodox Spirituality

26 July 2009

Many married and single converts feel that a definite ceiling is placed on their spirituality: as ‘lay’ people living according to a ‘lower’ calling in the world, less is required of them ...

Everyday Saints: To Be or Not To Be

22 July 2009

At a recent retreat for the women of the parish, I learned that St. Theophan the Recluse wrote that a hermit has a harder time making progress with instinctive, deep-rooted sin than a person who ...

If There Is No God -Then Everything Is Permitted

21 July 2009

Dostoevsky clearly knew the anguish of doubt and the moral paralysis that doubt in God's existence would lead to. His own experience of this religious doubt was such that he had compassion on ...

“Look At How Much They Love Each Other” The Development of Church Social Life

19 July 2009

The social life of the early Christians is not like our own. Many of us travel some distance to get to Church. And already Church on Sunday takes up much of the day. But there are ways to develop a ...

Orthodox Tradition Yesterday and Today

15 July 2009

We today tend to lose sight of the full significance of baptism, but for early Christians it marked the decisive moment in their lives. Baptism was not a single event but rather an entire process of ...

Men and Church

12 July 2009

In a time when churches of every description are faced with Vanishing Male Syndrome, men are showing up at Eastern Orthodox churches in numbers that, if not numerically impressive, are ...

Not for Lightweights

08 July 2009

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 ...

Prayer. Private and in Church.

07 July 2009

Today one can hear opinions such as it is better to pray by the prayer book and in the Church (because it is better to go by the way the Church shows us, rather than by the way that is invented by ...

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