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Review: The Sermon on the Mount(Post)
The Sermon on the Mount is the single largest teaching of our Lord Jesus. It is thick with content; it contains the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer, and meditations on the relationship between the o ...
Review: On Social Justice(Post)An Ancient Church Father Made More Relevant by 21st Century ProblemsI was on the edge of my seat reading the homilies on wealth, poverty, and social justice by St Basil the Great. In an age of pandem ...
Review: Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C.S. Lewis on Scripture & Theology(Post)The cover of Further Up and Further In by Edith M. Humphrey shows a majestic view of a mountain range. It is apt because Humphrey offers to be your theological guide to viewing the works of C.S.
Review: On Christian Leadership(Post)On Christian Leadership is a truly fantastic in depth study of the friendship and working relationship between two giants of 20th century Orthodox theology: Frs Georges Florovsky and Alexander Schmem ...
Review: Hymns of Repentance(Post)Of the likely hundreds of kontakia, or hymns, composed by St Romanos the Melodist, fifty-nine of his genuine “sermon-poems” survive today, yet he is known mainly as the author of the Akathist Hymn to ...
Review: On Christian Ethics(Post)The Christian life is even more demanding than you think, offers Basil the GreatIf you have ever been tempted to think that God grades sins on a sort of sliding scale, that some sins are more scandal ...
Review: The Liturgy of Death(Post)The Meaning of Death Ravaged by Secularism and the Church as “Co-Conspirator”Priest, dean, and historian, Alexander Schmemann was, perhaps, first and foremost a liturgiologist, a critical examiner of ...
Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Acedia(Post)It has become plainly obvious that, in current years, amidst wars, rumors of wars, disease, distraction, and the seemingly forced uprooting of nuclear family life in the secular west, we are being as ...
Review: The Time Has Come(Post)The Time Has Come is much more than a collection of articles by renown Orthodox theologians debating the thorniest issue of the American Church -- it is a mini seminary education.This hardback commem ...
Review: Beauty For Ashes(Post)The Church As Mystical Vessel and the Bishop as Protagonist The purpose of the Church is not to create individuals who do something, but rather who are something. That was what author and academic St ...
Review: Letters to Saint Olympia(Post)Feeling Depressed? Try a Church FatherDepression has been called the malady of the modern age. And yet there is no shortage of psychotherapies, medicines, and self-help gurus promising relief. Letter ...
Starting a Parish Lending Library(Page)By John W. Truslow, Jr. This article is written in the hope that you, with God's help, will pray for and build a parish/mission lending library for the good of your own community and for your own ed ...