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All Planets the Same: Religion’s Response to Space Life
Protopresbyter John Romanides
8 August 2016
I can foresee no way in which the teachings of the Orthodox Christian tradition could be affected by the discovery of intelligent beings on another planet. Some of my colleagues feel that even a discu... 
All of this
Saint Tertullian
7 August 2016
Prayer averts God’s anger from us. It washes away our sins. It repels temptations. It cements our faith.
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Stoned by Julian the Apostate: The Holy Martyr Dometios the Persian and his two disciples
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
7 August 2016
He was born in the time of Constantine the Great and came from Persia. After being instructed in the faith by a Christian called Avaros, he abandoned the religion of his fathers and everything to do w...
Visiting the monasteries of Vatopedi and Karakallou
Oystein Silouan Lid
7 August 2016
One of the richest and most beautiful monasteries we visit, is called Vatopedi, established in the 5th century. Golden coins, gilded chalices and spectacular church art is everywhere. But it is also...
Metropolitan Kallistos on ‘Perpetual Progress, or Felix the Cat’
7 August 2016
Lecture delivered for the IOCS Community Day on St Gregory of Nyssa (22 June 2013), as part of the series 'Meeting the Fathers'...
People as Liturgical Beings – Part 2
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
7 August 2016
People who offer ‘your own from your own, in all things and for all things’ serve God truly and pleasingly. That is, people who recognize that whatever they have is a gift from God. They believe that ...
The greatest proof
Saint John of Kronstadt
6 August 2016
The mind wanders and is in a state of isolation and dereliction. But when we believe, with living faith, that God is everywhere, in every place, at every moment, and is always with us and within us, t...
The religious education in Europe today
6 August 2016
Interview with Dr. Friedrich Schweitzer, Professor of Religious Education & Practical Theology (Tübingen University)...
Educational reform – Is it for the person or the labour market?
6 August 2016
The Hagiorite Orthodox monasticism is not isolated from the world; it is not unsociable. On the contrary, one might say that the genuine monk is more sociable than the laity, since he directly commu...
Superficial calm
Saint John of the Ladder
5 August 2016
Worms breed in rotten wood. In the same way, anger adheres to people with very meek external behavior and contaminated calm and tranquillity. People who expel it from within themselves find forgivenes...
