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Review: Taught By God(Post)
The serious student of the Bible who is also an Orthodox Christian always had a particular quandary. He could try the commentary of the Fathers, which were soundly Orthodox, but might struggle with a ...
Thou Art a Vineyard - Michael Legaspi(Post)Thou Art a Vineyard: A reflection on the season of Great Lent from St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary Associate Professor of Old Testament, Michael LegaspiLast year, in the middle of Gr ...
Review: Harp of Glory(Post)From the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Comes a distinctly African hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary:For the roots of the tree of your love are entwined within my heart, And that tree grows in stature a ...
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 si ...
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: How to Be a Sinner(Post)The Sinner Identity Done RightHaving come up with a provocative and compelling title, Peter Bouteneff more than delivers on its promise in How to Be a Sinner from St Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Pr ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...