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An Orthodox Look at English Translations of the Bible
Fr. John Whiteford
12 October 2016
If one wishes to study the Scriptures, one of the most important things that he must do is to acquire a good translation of the text… unless he just happens to know Biblical Hebrew, and Koine Gree... 
Sin Is a Form of Love: Julian atte Norwich
James W. Lillie
12 October 2016
In continuation of the article by Professor Ilias Voulgarakis on Sin and Love, it might be worth looking at what the English mystic and recluse “Julian atte Norwich” (ca. 8 November 1342 - ca. 1416) h...
F – The Scarlet Letter (Part II)
Fr. Stephen Powley
12 October 2016
“UNBIND HIM”
John was coming home after being away for the past five years. You might think the family would be planning a great party and feast to celebrate the return of their son. Instead the fa...
Irina Kirillova MBE on ‘Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh’ (Part One)
12 October 2016
The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, presents Irina Kirillova on 'Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh' (Part One). Lecture delivered for the IOCS Community Lecture Days, 2016 series (21 May 2016)....
An Icon of Human Freedom – 2
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia
12 October 2016
Sharing, Silence, Suffering
If the Mother of God at the moment of the Annunciation is a true icon of human freedom, of authentic liberty and liberation, then her actions and reactions in the events t...
What is Truth?
Archpriest Gregory Hallam
12 October 2016
Icon of Jesus
Pontius Pilate’s cry has been echoed down the ages and it seems that it has a particular resonance today when, intellectually speaking; only science seems to offer the kind of objectiv...
Venomous poison
Saint Basil the Great
11 October 2016
It’s an interesting point that, just as the Hydra of the Ancient Greeks had seven heads, so sin can be described in terms of the seven deadly ones: pride, avarice, gluttony, lust, sloth, wrath and env...
Why Morality is Not Christian
Fr. Stephen Freeman
11 October 2016
I recall my first classes in Moral Theology some 35 or so years ago. The subject is an essential part of Western thought (particularly in the Catholic and Anglican traditions). In many ways the topi...
Our Relationship with God: 9. Spiritual progress
Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)
11 October 2016
As Christ descended first to the nethermost parts of the earth and then ascended above the heavens, so humble love raises up a ladder in the heart of man. The same ladder which Christ used to descen...
An Icon of Human Freedom – 1
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia
11 October 2016
Am I not free?
(1 Corinthians 9:1)
God persuades, He does not compel;
for violence is foreign to Him.
(Epistle to Diognetus VII, 4)
What Shall We Offer?
In an Orthodox hymn used at Vespers on Ch...
