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The Dignity of Humankind and the Indignity of God Ilias Voulgarakis 22 December 2016 An undignified Trinity Once upon all the time, there’s God. And from some time there’s human beings. But the reports coming from Earth about the state of humankind are increasingly distressing. The h...
Searching for Heart in a Heartless World Gale Bellas-Papageorge 22 December 2016 I was having a conversation recently about the Occupy Movement, where it was described to me as violent and un-American. I have to disagree with my fellow Orthodox Christian's viewpoint. Although I do...
Without fruit 21 December 2016 If Christians have the true faith but no works of faith to show for it, then their faith is in vain and useless....
Occupy Movement Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 21 December 2016 Anyone who has not been comatose for the last several weeks has heard of the “Occupy Movement”, which began with the call to “occupy Wall Street” and then spread to other cities in the U.S. and Canada...
How to Really Raise a Child Katherine Johnson 21 December 2016 The last hour of daylight and we’re taking the children for a walk, catching the final rays of light before the sun sets behind the horizon. And she tells me about a woman she met, a fellow pilgrim at...
Within reason Saint John of Kronstadt 20 December 2016 Don’t you dare despise people because they’re sinners and don’t be unrelenting, because all you’ll do is deepen their wounds. Better to correct them with advice aimed at stopping the harm, or keeping ...
Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis (1906-1982) Archimandrite Athanasios of Stavrovouni 20 December 2016 Elder Germanos was born in the village of Avgorou in the Famagusta region of Cyprus in 1906, to God-fearing parents, Nikolaos and Margarita Hatzigeorgis. When, as a child, he read the life of Saint Io...
Proper Attire in the House of God Abbot Tryphon 20 December 2016 The Church is our home, a place where we should feel comfortable, and at ease. It is also God’s house and is a temple set aside for worship of the Holy Trinity. Although times have changed and we have...
Not by externals Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 19 December 2016 Evaluate things not according to their shape or color, by their content. And evaluate people not according to their position or their wealth, but by their heart, where the emotions, the will and the i...
Human Rights and Christian Thought Chrysostomos Hatzilambrou 19 December 2016 The emphasis given by Orthodox theology to the creation of people as images of the Image of God, is directly related to the Orthodox understanding of the concept of rights. As creations of God (Matth....
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