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The highest form of song is prayer
29 November 2016
Pemptousia brings you excerpts from interviews with Jonathan Jackson, the Hollywood star actor and musician, on the occasion of the book presentation of "Το Μυστήριο της Τέχνης. Η γέννηση του Καλλιτέχνη κατ’ εικόνα Θεού", the Greek translation of his book "The Mystery of Art-Becoming an Artist in the Image of God" (Athens, 20/11/2016). Here the artist describes his experiences in the Orthodox Church, and excerpts from his work are available for your enjoyment.... 
30 November: Saint Frumentios
George Poulos
29 November 2016
The dark continent of Africa made famous two Englishmen named Stanley and Livingston whose exploits have been well chronicled in books and motion pictures, but way back in the fourth century two broth...
Death, the most devastating and mysterious event in our life
Maria Dimitriadou, Pedagogue
29 November 2016
The greatest and most mysterious events in people’s life are birth and death. But death gives rise to much more powerful emotions and causes deeper problems. It first impinged on us after the fall of ...
Poet
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
28 November 2016
Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet....
Equality between women and men in the Church
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
28 November 2016
Let’s examine how women have been treated in Orthodox theology. It’s well known that Saint Paul proclaimed: ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and femal...
The Adoption of Christmas in the Eastern Churches (Part II)
Thomas Talley
28 November 2016
From the time of the restoration of orthodoxy with the accession of Theodosius, then, the observance of the nativity festival on December 25 extended smoothly and swiftly from Constantinople, across ...
Not trivia
Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo
27 November 2016
Have large dreams. Don’t dream about trivialities. And always in the context of the Church....
The Moral Life of Babies
27 November 2016
Nicholas Nixon
for The New York Times
By Paul Bloom
Not long ago, a team of researchers watched a 1-year-old boy take justice into his own hands. The boy had just seen a puppet show in which one pu...
Even if it’s feeble
Abbess Christonymfi, Monastery of Our Lady the Queen of All, Keratea
26 November 2016
From the moment people love Christ and give themselves to God, even if their passage through the monastery is not particularly marked, they sanctify the place of their ascetic struggle....
