“Through a Glass, Darkly”: Pastoral Challenges in an Age of Social Media (SKYPE call)

Metropolitan Savvas of Pittsburgh talks through skype about the pastoral challenges in an age of Social Media
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Are There Virtuous Lay People in Contemporary World?
Archim. Zacharias: “Descent” as a Way of Meeting God
Fr. Georgios Metallinos: Orthodoxy and Hellenism
The Experience of Orthodox Life
Put your spiritual oxygen-mask on
A Journey to Holy Mountain Athos – Part I
Abbess Thekla: Orthodoxy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Metropolitan Pavlos: “Orthodox Christianity in Aleppo”
Let go & let God
Jonathan Jackson: Cooperation between Church and State
Monk Iakovos: “Holy Mountain’s Psaltic Tradition”
Fr. Emmanuel Klapsis: “Charismatic and Academic Theology”
Artemis: “Mash Up Sessions II”, Music from the Soul
Jonathan Jackson: Experiences from Greece
St Gregory Palamas & Taboric Light in Russian Visual Culture
Dr Andreas Andreopoulos: The effect of hesychasm on the icon of the Transfiguration
Chanting in Mt Athos
Metropolitan Kallistos: “My Acquaintance with Elder Sophrony”
Klaus Kenneth: “The meaning of Music”
Abbot Damascene: Social media and spiritual life
Metropolitan of Atlanta, Alexios: “My Life in Mt Athos”
Orthodoxy’s offering to America
Abbot Damascene: Brotherhood of Monastery St Herman of Alaska
The Inter-Orthodox Dialogue in Germany
Father Jonah from Taiwan speaks about Saint Porphyrios
Jonathan Jackson: The art of acting, the role of Orthodox Christianity and my new production
Metropolitan of Drama, Paul, speaks on the area of Pontos
Jonathan Jackson: ‘How my entry into Orthodoxy affected the people around me’
Metropolitan of Lemesos, Athanasios: “Signs of the Times”
Metropolitan Kallistos: “The First Thing that Drew Me to Orthodoxy”
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia: “Material Desires”
Orthodoxy In A New Media Age
Abbot Damascene: My relationship with Father Seraphim Rose
Klaus Kenneth: “The real life and the meaningful happiness” – First part
CERN, a community of peace
The Spiritual Heart
Klaus Kenneth: “The valuable life and the meaningful happiness” – Second part
Spirituality and Singing in Mt Athos
What Saints have to tell us today
‘Your good Spirit’, tone 1
Klaus Kenneth talks about Holy Mountain and Elder Sophrony
Klaus Kenneth “Orthodoxy as revelation and life”
Norris J. Chumley: From Filmmaker to Orthodox Christian
‘You Who clothed Yourself with light as a garment’ – Great Friday Vespers
“In tears, the harlot…” – Hymns of Holy Wednesday
The Palm Sunday and the Holy Week
RISEN33: A Lenten Documentary
Analogia, a new Academic Journal for Theological Studies
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware – My acquaintance with Elder Sophrony
Maurice Banjoko – ‘How I became Orthodox’
Sunday of Orthodoxy at Vatopaidi
Is It Possible to Modernize Tradition?
The Sunday before the Cheesefare Week
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk – “Christian Ecumenism: Does It Have A Future?”
The virtue of Internet-abstinence
Christ’s Person as the Foundation of Church Life
The Foundation of Spiritual Life and Spiritual Fatherhood’s Mystery
Abbot Elisaios: “Mt Athos, Yesterday and Today”
Contemporary Christians’ Spiritual Quality
2016 Nativity Message of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios
Elder Ephraim from Simonos Petra: The Experience of Orthodox Church
The highest form of song is prayer
The Economic Crisis and Globalization
Jonathan Jackson: A Secret full of Music
Metropolitan Pavlos of Siatista: “Elder Iakovos, the Man of God” – Part I
‘My conversion to Orthodoxy’
Metropolitan Kallistos on ‘Demonic Temptation: the Teaching of St Mark the Monk (5th century)’
High-risk online behaviors
Dr Marcus Plested on St Gregory Palamas
Safe Internet use and protection against threats
Dr Danut Manastireanu on Father Dumitru Staniloae (Part Two)
Pathological on-line behaviors, recent scientific Greek and International data
Dr Danut Manastireanu on Father Dumitru Staniloae (Part One)
Metropolitan Kallistos on ‘From Light to Darkness: the Christian Journey Strangely Reversed’
From the classical media to the digital media in the mission of the Church
Irina Kirillova MBE on ‘Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh’ (Part Two)
Pan-ecclesiastical discussion on the web-page: success or disappointment?
Irina Kirillova MBE on ‘Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh’ (Part One)
The Use of the Internet in Pastoral Care
The religious education in Europe today – 2
Metropolitan Kallistos on Elder Amphilochios of Patmos
Publishing information from the orthodox world on the net : be responsible!
3 topics for non-church young people: an attempt to grab the attention
Irina Kirillova on ‘The figure of Christ in Dostoevsky’ (Part Two)
“Watch then thyself” (Πρόσεχε σεαυτώ): Spiritual Practice and Digital Culture
Irina Kirillova on ‘The figure of Christ in Dostoevsky’ (Part One)
Reaching to the Cloud – Digital Media in a Finnish Orthodox Context
Enlisting Digital Media into Pastoral Care in the Far East
The Role of Social Networks in the Christian Life
Orthodoxy on social media: speak and do no harm
Crowd funding in the Orthodox media: myths and reality
From the digital valley of hunger to the “Bread of Life”
Digital libraries as spiritual heritage’s alternatives: the case of Theological Studies Academy’s (Volos) Digital Library
Promotion of pastoral values through the Internet- digital pastoral care as a tool for deradicalization and social peace
The role of the media in contemporary pastoral care and missionary work- the experience of Latin America
An Orthodox service blog
The art as a form of religious expression
The responsibility of the shepherd in the face of Social Media Networks
Past and present in the presence of the Polish Orthodox Church in the Internet; ideas and perspectives
Metropolitan Kallistos on ‘Perpetual Progress, or Felix the Cat’
The religious education in Europe today
Professor David Frost on ‘by merit rais’d/ To that bad eminence’: Milton’s Satan
Questions and Answers: The New MA in Theology, Ministry and Mission
The presence of Putna monastery in the digital world: an attempt to communicate its ethos
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware – ‘Fresh Hope and New Challenges: The Church in the Traditional Orthodox Countries’
Revd Dr Alexander Tefft on ‘Angels and the Last Judgement’
Nikos Gouraros: A lifeline on the Internet
Clergy-Laity 2016: Jonathan Jackson: The Mystery of Art – Becoming An Artist in the Image of God
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware – ‘Not Ethnic but Global: Orthodoxy in the Western World’
Revd Professor Andrew Louth on St John of Damascus – Part Two
Nikos Koios: A lifeline on the Internet
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on ‘What does it mean to be a person?’ (Part Two)
Revd Professor Andrew Louth on St John of Damascus – Part One
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on ‘What does it mean to be a person?’ (Part One)
Revd Dr Christopher Knight – Science and Orthodoxy: The historical and methodological background
Metropolitan Kallistos’ Appeal
Spreading the discourse of catechism in spoken form on the internet (as .mp3 speech files). Experience from the running of the “Pantocrator” web site
The pastoral care of the Church as an expression of communion in Christ
The religious education in Germany today
Opportunities for ecclesiastical intervention in cyberspace to preserve the authentic Orthodox ethos
The differentiation between communicative action, ritual action practice and virtual communications as a foundation for a pastoral approach to the Internet and Digital Media
Pan-Orthodox Internet Study Programs
Spreading theology through e-learning: the experience of Balamand University
Rev. Fr. Christopher T. Metropulos: “The Ecumenical Patriarch is the First among Equals”
The ‘Question to the Priest’ as a kind of journalistic discourse and a type of communication on the Internet
Rev. Fr. Christopher Metropulos: “We realized that the people of God want something important from us”
Grains of Orthodox pastoral experience from two decades on the Internet
Archbishop Demetrios: Holy and Great Synod “Unity and not a tedious uniformity”
Ethical and spiritual issues related to the use of pseudonyms in Orthodox Internet forums
Digital Technology and Cyberspace: a further test of the person (Videotaped Recording)
Dissemination of the Word of God via the Internet
Dr. Konstantinos Zorbas: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The main reason for ecclesiastical journalism, the quest, its starting-points and the methodological consequences of this quest.
“Through a Glass, Darkly”: Pastoral Challenges in an Age of Social Media (SKYPE call)
Press Briefing on Friday, June 24 following the fifth official day of the Holy and Great Council
Press Briefing on Thursday, June 23 following the fourth official day of the Holy and Great Council
We all feel the Holy Spirit’s presence in the Holy and Great Council
Press Briefing following the first official day of the Holy and Great Council, gathered in Crete June 19-26, 2016.
Divine Liturgy and Vespers with the Kneeling Prayers of Holy Pentecost
Press Briefing for the 3rd day of the Holy and Great Council’s works
Nutrition Fasting stress
Τhe deep importance of the Holy and Great Synod for the Orthodoxy’s family
Press Briefing’s Video for Holy and Great Council, on June 21, 2016
The Holy and Great Council as a celebration for Orthodoxy
Old wine in new wineskins: digital multidimensional media as New Church?
The Virtuality of communication: anthropological threats and the struggle against them
Nutrition for future generations
Fr. Michael Harper: “The Holy Spirit”
Technology and religious life: is heaven getting closer?
“The Holy and Great Council addresses a Word of Light and Hope to the world”
Mission in the digital world, highlights of our experience – Forerunner’s Holy Monastery in Anatoli, Agia (Larisa))
Digital Media – the Great Commission. Can the two collaborate?
In the realm of digital media: the loss of consciousness as a threat to the Christian worldview
What are the positions of the Orthodox Church in a «Modern World»?
Digital “Word”: a reflection on evangelism in the virtual age.
When the Internet intrudes as a threat to friendly relations.
The “Rublev” orthodox digital library project. How the internet could offer spiritual benefits. New technologies in the Orthodox faith.
Discernment: Spiritual Eyeglasses for Web Surfers
Addressing those outside the Church
Virtual reality and reality of virtue
The era of new media technologies and its challenges
An attempt at a niptic/philokalic approach to the Internet
Decoding the signs of our times
Requirements for the Divine Eucharist
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware: “Salvation in Christ”
Painter Ouresis (Urosh) Todorovich
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware – Orthodoxy’s offering to Western society
On Elder Georgios of Gregoriou Monastery, Mt Athos
The East of the West and the West of the East
Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta: “St Porphyrios, a Great Figure of Orthodoxy”
Metropolitan Ierotheos: “Holy Mountain’s Secret Cry”
Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta – Orthodoxy’s offering to USA
Francesco Bandarin at Vatopaidi
A message for Christmas from Orthodox Asia
“Pistevo”, I Believe: The transforming feeling of Heaven’s Kingdom
Jonathan Jackson talks about Enation’s new compilation: “Basileia ton Ouranon”
Priest-martyr Philoumenos († 29 November, 1979)
Metropolitan Nikolaos: “Global Financial Crisis and Crisis of Faith”
The Unshakeable Faith of Elder Ephraim (from Katounakia, Mt. Athos)
Elder Moses the Athonite: “Humility, the Foundation of all Virtues”
Archimandrite Zacharias: “My Acquintance with Elder Sophrony”
Elder Elisaios: “1050 years of Holy Mountain”
Abbot Elisaios: “Orthodox Church in Modern Society”
The feast of the icon of Theotokos Pantanassa – in Porto Lagos – Part 2
Z. Purger – A. Borovali: “A Discussion on Mt Athos’ Images”
Orthodox Mission Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa
The feast of the icon of Theotokos Pantanassa – in Porto Lagos, Greece, 2015
A. Borovali: “Exploring Mt Athos through a Camera”
Abbot Ephraim: A Speech to Students
Jonathan Jackson:”A Message from an American Orthodox to Orthodox Greece”
Photographer Zoran Purger: “A Sight on Mt Athos”
Education and Modern Economical Crisis
Abbot Ephraim: Lord’s Cross in our Life
Jonathan Jackson: “My Future Plans”
Z. Kosc: “Mt Athos: Between Image and Photographic Gaze”
The Feast of the Holy Cincture of Theotokos – Vatopedi, 2015
Jonathan Jackson & Norris Chumley: A conversation about God
Fr Zacharias: “Requirements and Practice of the Divine Liturgy”
Metropolitan Athanasios: “Contemporary Charismatic Elders”
Jonathan Jackson: “Spiritual Life vs. Showbiz”
Fr Alexander Rentel: Holy Eucharist
Elder Prodromos (Holy Mountain): On Crisis and Divine Providence
Fr Alexander Rentel: Divine Worship in Orthodox Tradition
Prof. J. Farina: Religious and Human Rights in 21st Century
Elder Prodromos (Holy Mountain): On Repentance
Prof. R. Nelson: “My Relationship with Byzantine Art”
Jonathan Jackson: My Impressions from Holy Mountain
“Mystery of Art”: Jonathan Jackson’s new book
John Farina: “Is religion private or public issue?”
Jonathan Jackson: The Traditional Value of Family
The Apostle Paul
The Apostle Peter
St Dionysius the Areopagite and Spiritual Life
Orthodox Patristic & Byzantine Study Week (Oxford, July 3-8, 2015)
Jonathan Jackson: “The message of Enation band’s music”
Pentecost: Descent of the Holy Spirit
What & why is The Church? The Sunday of the Fathers
“Person and Violence-St. Ambrosius project”: Featuring the action taken by Pemptousia to address the phenomenon and the rhetoric of violent radicalization online
The man born blind
Jonathan Jackson: “What Orthodoxy means to me”
The Samaritan Woman
DMOPC 2015: Live streaming
The Sunday of the Paralytic
The Myrrh-Bearers
Monasticism and marriage as forms of martyrdom. An interview with Fr. John Behr
Pascha at the Monastery of Vatopedi – 2015
Great Tuesday and the Announciation at Vatopedi Monastery
From sex addiction to sainthood: Saint Mary of Egypt
The Sunday of Saint John Climacus
Praying the Hours during Lent
Extreme positions in Theology and Life
Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis), the Man of God – Part II
Monastery of Vatopedi: 25 years of Spiritual and Social Effort
Spring on Mount Athos
Sister Vassa: The Sunday of Orthodoxy
First Week of Lent. Adam’s Lament
Sister Vassa talks about the Publican and the Pharisee
The feast of Theophany at Vatopedi Monastery, Holy Mount Athos – 2015
Being Connected, Not Just Online
Alexios of Atlanta: “Religious Life in America”
Βroadcast of Resurrection and Paschal Divine Liturgy
Broadcast of Holy Saturday’s Service
Pemptousia WEB TV: Βroadcast of Epitaphios’ Service
Broadcast of Great Hours & Apokathelosis Vespers
Pemptousia WEB TV: Βroadcast of Holy Passion’s Service
Pemptousia WEB TV: Broadcast of Holy Wednesday’s Service
Broadcast of Holy Tuesday’s Bridegroom Service
Βroadcast of the Bridegroom Service from St John Chrysostom, Thessaloniki
Broadcast of the Bridegroom Service from St Dimitrios, Thessaloniki
Broadcast of the Palm Sunday from St Dimitrios, Thessaloniki
Klaus Kenneth talks about the significance of experience in life
Professor David Frost “The search for faith'”
Professor David Frost talks about the english publication of “The Psalms”
Alexios, Metropolitan of Atlanta: “The Holy Mountain’s Offering to the World”
Isaac Scott Cairns: “Finding God in Poetry & Creative Writing”
“Heaven on Earth”: Members of the Church & Citizens of Heaven
Living the Faith: 4. Christian Behaviour
Living the Faith: 3. The Bible, Prayer, and Fasting
Living the Faith: 2. Τhe Holy Mysteries
Living the Faith: 1. The Liturgy – “A Pearl of Great Price”
Fr. Michael Harper: “What Is the Church? Isn’t God Enough?”
David Bayne on Footpaths Project
Andrew Buchanan on Footpaths Project
John Arnell on Footpaths Project
Opening of the International Conference on St Gregory Palamas (Thessaloniki 2012-03-07)
“60 Minutes” visits Mount Athos
Monastery Of Vatopaidi