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Saint Ahmed the Calligrapher
24 December 2016
The holy New Martyr Ahmed was born in the seventeenth century to a Muslim family in Constantinople. By profession he was a copyist in the Great Archives. In accordance with Ottoman law, since he did n... 
Contemporary Christians’ Spiritual Quality
24 December 2016
Protopresbyter Vassileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of Theology (Thessaloniki, Greece) speaks on the spiritual quality of Christians today...
A dignified triad
Ilias Voulgarakis
24 December 2016
Wednesday, 24 December 2137, the secondary three-man Committee for the Protection of Nature of the International Academy of Sciences was continuing its session. The three esteemed scientific chiefs...
2016 Nativity Message of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios
23 December 2016
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America offers reflections on the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in December 2016. ...
Egotism in the raw
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
23 December 2016
When I first went to live with my holy Elder, there in that harsh place in the desert, when I was living close to this man, that’s when I became acquainted with my egotism and saw it in practice....
A Christmas greeting card sent by Elder Sophrony of Essex
Saint Sophrony of Essex
23 December 2016
Paraskevi, who out of sheer humility does not wish to reveal her full name, was among the first spiritual children of Elder Sophrony, during the time of her studies in England. She sent us a copy of t...
What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?
Fr. Lawrence R. Farley
23 December 2016
Cake Demonstrating Homosexual Marriage
The best place to access the views, questions, prejudices and challenges of the World is, I believe, the office water-cooler. The next best places would be th...
For the healing of the nations
Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou
23 December 2016
Nationalism is our form of … idolatry ... ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts one’s own nation above humanity, abo...
Loving-kindness
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
22 December 2016
God is good and loves us and he asks that we should be charitable and perform works of love....
Should we hate religion?
Bev Cooke
22 December 2016
There was a lot of talk in January about Jefferson Bethke’s “Why I hate religion but love Jesus” spoken word video. Since it was posted on January 14, it’s been viewed over twenty million times on You...
