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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: 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 ...
Review: Orthodox Christianity, Vol. 5: Sacraments and Other Rites(Post)The Sacraments of the Church as “Arsenal”In the fifth volume of his masterwork series, Orthodox Christianity (published by St Vladimir’s Seminary [SVS] Press), Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev describes ...
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 ...
Daniel B. Hinshaw, M.D - Author Spotlight(Post)Full Biography Daniel B. Hinshaw, M.D. is professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School and consultant in palliative medicine at the University of Michigan Geriatric ...
Review: His Life Is Mine(Post)His Life Is Mine. The title of this work stands as something of a promise fulfilled. Having believed that life—true life, eternal life—is found in Christ, the Russian Athonite monk, Sophrony set abou ...
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: 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 ...
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.
About SVS Press(Page)Welcome to our online bookstore! Founded in 1968, St Vladimir's Seminary Press is the largest and most active publisher of Orthodox Christian books in the English language, with more than 500 titles ...
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 ...