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Becoming Culturally Savvy Orthodox Christians 19 March 2017 In my 24 years as an Orthodox Christian, I’ve heard countless homilies about the evils of the culture in which we live. Most of those homilies have gone on to exhort the hearers to live sanctified liv...
The Theology of Gender – 2. Eve The Helper Sofia Matzarioti-Kostara 19 March 2017 The word “helper” itself presupposes an action for which Adam needs help. The only work that the text refers to is to protect and cultivate Paradise. The first interpreters of the sacred text understo...
All work is good Saint Iakovos Tsalikis 18 March 2017 So long as we work for our bread, it doesn’t matter what our job is. Of Adam’s sons, one was a farmer the other a herdsman. All occupations are good, so long as we remain close to God. Saint Paul, i...
Gambling demonstrates the insufficiency of using Scripture alone David W T Brattston 18 March 2017 GAMBLING DEMONSTRATES THE INSUFFICIENCY OF USING SCRIPTURE ALONE The stand of many twenty-first-century Protestants against gambling demonstrates that the Bible is not a sufficient authority for Chri...
Events which lend themselves to explaining death to children Maria Dimitriadou, Pedagogue 18 March 2017 If children are brought to hospitals and old people’s homes under circumstances in which they’re comfortable, this allows them to become acquainted with sickness and bodily decline as a natural part...
Apostles Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo 17 March 2017 Every member of the Church isn’t just a guest, but is also an apostle of the Gospel of Christ....
St Maximus as a monk at the Vatopedi Monastery Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery 17 March 2017 The spiritual unity and communion in Christ between the Holy Mountain and Russia is not something recent. It goes back to the last one thousand years. Those who contributed to this unity were mostly R...
Coercion and violence are the basic characteristics of the patricidal society Metropolitan Amfilhije (Radović) of Montenegro and the Littoral 17 March 2017 7. It is in this charismatic intermingling of divine fatherhood and sonship that our true knowledge of God has its roots. Our information and our life in God were given by the Father to His eternal ...
Teaching the life of Saint Nicholas in pre-school: evaluation and conclusions Christina Tsaka, Kindergarten teacher 17 March 2017 The children comprehended the concept of celebration, as well as the concept of sanctity. More specifically, when I asked “Do you know what does ‘Saint’ mean?” a child replied “Yes, the Saints are d...
He opened all the gates Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 16 March 2017 Sin clipped the wings of Adam and his descendants and so all of us were separated from God. The very clay from which we were made blinded us. Christ was the first Adam and the first Human, the first...
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