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Abbot Elisaios: “Orthodox Church in Modern Society”
23 October 2015
Elder Elisaios, Abbot of Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mt Athos-Greece, speaks for modern issues of Orthodox Church: Mt Athos, Ecumenical Patriarchate, Mission, Political Authority, and Monastery Property in Economic Crisis... 
The Challenge of Liturgical Translations
Issac Melton
22 October 2015
The following summarizes and expands commentary on the crucial question of liturgical language, which has appeared in DOXA Magazine in a number of issues.
Liturgical language is an important issue fo...
A Church of All: Persons with disabilities – Imago Dei
21 October 2015
22. In the history of Christian theology, the notion that humanity is made in the image of God has tended to mean that it is the mind or soul which is in God's image, since the bodily (corporeal or ph...
A Church of All: Persons with disabilities – Hermeneutical issues
19 October 2015
12. How can we interpret from a theological perspective the fact that some people live with disabilities? What does that fact tell us about human life in God's world? We have learned from 20th century...
A Church of All: Persons with disabilities – commonalities and differences
17 October 2015
1. "The disabled" have struggled hard to become recognized as "disabled people". The fight was worthwhile for two reasons. First, throughout history, disabled people have been de-personalised and perc...
Father Zacharias Dionysiates (1909-2000)
Monk Joseph Dionysiates
12 October 2015
Over the long course of my monastic life (1964-2015) I’ve known a host of monks who are now in the Church of the First-Born in the heavens. Of these a good number quitted the outside world in the flow...
On the danger of spiritual routine
8 October 2015
I read once that: ‘There are some people who are orphans from the time they’re born. I’m very much afraid that the same is true in the field of faith. We’re born, baptized but never manage to come to ...
Heedlessness
Saint John Chrysostom
8 October 2015
The cause of moral lapses isn’t the nature of the temptations, but the heedlessness of those who are tempted.
>Saint John Chrysostom...
Hieromonk Theodosios Karouliotis (1869 – 2 October 1937)
7 October 2015
He was born in the province of Saratov in Russia in 1869. Even as a child he loved prayer, which he taught to the other children of his age, boys and girls, who treated him as the Elder of their littl...
