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    On Wealth and Poverty - New Edition(Post)

    To the uninitiated, St John Chrysostom can seem daunting, heady at first glance. Yet here we have a collection of homilies that are, together, approachable, engaging, and despite being nearly 1,700 y ...

    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: 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: 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: 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: On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy(Post)

    The Most Profound Church Father of the 7th Century Has a Simple Message: Go to Church!During these months of lock-down, when so many of us have been denied the consolation of the Church, the Divine L ...

    Review: Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image(Post)

    God’s Human Death as the Doorway to LifeIn fact, death is the only unavoidable partof life.It is the only thing which I can be sure of,and, thus,the only thing which I must contemplate.Death is a nec ...

    Christ the Conqueror of Hell(Post)

    Though not encyclical, such as other tomes (The Departure of the Soul jumps to mind), Christ the Conqueror of Hell is a fantastic insight into the deep liturgical, dogmatic, and poetic roots of our O ...

    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 Patriar ...

    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: 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 ...