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Expecting?

12 December 2008

Today’s American families usually prepare for the birth of a child financially and physically: We put aside money for room additions and begin education accounts. We take out insurance policies. Dad ...

Orthodox Nativity and Western Christmas: Toward a Renewed Focus

09 December 2008

The fact is that the "Christmas spirit" is the best thing that has ever happened to consumer society. It is equated with the unending desire to buy new and more sophisticated things. Even ...

Orphans

08 December 2008

The Angel of our Church has departed to pray for us before the Lord in Heavenly monasteries. Words are powerless to express our grief. These 18 years of the Church life will remain with me forever. I ...

Entry of the Holy Theotokos Into the Temple.

04 December 2008

But let us ponder the following: often we find ourselves in a situation similar to these people – Joachim and Anna, – when misfortune befalls us, when we are in need, when we are ready to promise the ...

An Orthodox Understanding of Stewardship

23 November 2008

Stewardship is clearly a part of the Christian worldview that is based on the fact of unity with nature and the desire for harmony with it. We have to realize that it is not enough to want to be good ...

On the Social and Moral Problems of Youth in the 21st Century

20 November 2008

Why do many young people, despite all these pressures and temptations, nevertheless retain the high idealism of youth and find a more moral social ethos? Because we are not in complete bondage to the ...

The Skull on the “Russian” Orthodox Cross

20 November 2008

The skull that viewers can see in iconography of the orthodox crucifixion symbolically represents the skull of Adam. Some believe (although this is not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but rather a ...

The Discipline of Faith

18 November 2008

But discipline is a scary word for us modern people. We chafe against the thought of being subject to any other authority except our own self-will. We equate freedom with doing what we want, when we ...

The tragedy of Man

16 November 2008

The tragedy of our times lies in our almost complete unawareness, or unmindfulness, that there are two kingdoms, the temporal and the eternal. We would build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, rejecting ...

Preparing To Go To Church

11 November 2008

On Sundsays and Holy-days we ought to spend a part of the day in church assisting at the Liturgy and other services. It would be well for us, moreover, to follow the example of those first ...

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