Orthodox People
Christmas in a Post-Christian Era
Hieromonk Eleftherios Balakos
29 December 2021
And while the messiahs are multiplying in this day and age, in the guise of...
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Delegation from Norway visits the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Anthimos
Panagiotis G. Pavlos Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo
4 May 2018
A large delegation of Norwegians was received by the Metropolitan of Thessa...
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Private club?
Abbot Tryphon
13 March 2017
We must invite our friends and neighbors to "taste and see" the great treas...
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When Words Run Dry
Katherine Johnson
18 October 2016
Sometimes words lose meaning,
their depth emptied from overuse.
Words lik...
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A Turbulent Personality Discovers Orthodoxy – 1
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
16 October 2016
Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989).
One of the most enigmatic and contradictory per...
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Screen Asceticism
Fr. Micah Hirschy
14 October 2016
I am not a Luddite. I am sitting in front of a computer screen, I have an i...
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The Gagauz of Moldava and Ukraine
21 August 2016
The Gagauz are Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christian populations with obvious...
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The Orthodox Church of Finland
19 August 2016
The Finnish Orthodox Church (Finnish: Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko; Swedish: ...
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The prayer rope
Rod Dreher
13 August 2016
Rod Dreher
I had a prayer rope, in fact, one that had been given to me a ...
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A Culture of Condemnation
Fr. Micah Hirschy
21 September 2015
Fr. Micah Hirschy
We live in a culture of condemnation. We make ourselves...
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