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    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 Ste

    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 commemo

    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. Letters

    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 ol

    Review: A Silent Patriarch(Post)

    When I was a small child in the early 1970s, my parents used to hang photographs of the Coptic Patriarch Kyrillos VI in our Brooklyn apartment. The photographs would invariably show the Patriarc

    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

    On the Incarnation (Post)

    Ask the average Christian why it was necessary for God to bring about the incarnation of Christ, the central mystery of Christian doctrine, and he might feel that he knows the answer. He might say sim

    SVS Press Club(Page)

    Announcing the new SVS Press Book Club Receive Every New SVS Press Book While Supporting the Mission of Orthodox Publishing Club members automatically receive new SVS Press books at a 30% discount...

    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

    SVS Press Club Information(Page)

    Announcing the new SVS Press Book Club Receive Every New SVS Press Book While Supporting the Mission of Orthodox Publishing Club members automatically receive new SVS Press books at a 30% discount...

    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...