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Jonathan Jackson: “How I became Orthodox”
2 May 2015
Holywood actor Jonathan Jackson, recipient of five Emmy Awards, at an interview given in "Pemptousia" during his recent visit to the Monastery of Vatopaidi - Mt Athos, speaks about how he became Orthodox...
Pemptousia FM – Pearls of Great Price: The Faith
1 May 2015
Veronica Hughes
Faith is a complex virtue, which is not understandable by our mind, but by our heart. Just as one cannot have obedience without humility, one cannot have faith without also having ‘t...
Do not Add to His Words: The Orthodox Option
Joel Kalvesmaki
29 April 2015
Joel Kalvesmaki is Editor in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, overseeing the production of Dumbarton Oaks' flagship Byzantine publications, print and digital. He is active in the digital humanitie...
On Modern Fundamentalist Secular State
Fr. - Dumitru Vanca
28 April 2015
Some time ago, Faculty of Orthodox Theology (from “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia) hosted a Symposium for Saints Constantine the Great and his mother Helen (2013-12th International Confere...
Pemptousia FM: The meaning of the Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom
27 April 2015
Dr. Bruce Beck
We listen to the Easter homily of St. John Chrysostom every year, but do we know what it means? Why do we shout back, “It was embittered” in the middle of the night? We contacted Dr...
The Monastic Life: The way of perfection
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
27 April 2015
Prof. Georgios Mantzaridis
With the advent of monasticism, a special way of life appeared in the Church, which however did not proclaim a new morality. The Church does not have one set of moral rul...
The Ceremony of the Washing of the Feet on the Holy Island of Patmos
Th. G. Axelos
27 April 2015
For four hundred years now, on the pleasantly cool island of divine visions, holy little Patmos, on Great Thursday every year, there’s been a tradition of re-enacting the drama of the Last Supper, whi...
Saint Kalandion of Cyprus
26 April 2015
Saint Kalandion
After the fall of Palestine to the Arabs, a large number of crusaders (soldiers, clergy and lay people) settled in Cyprus. Many of them led a hermit's ascetic life and they were clas...
The Myrrh-Bearers
26 April 2015
Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna in Austria talks about the Myrrh-Bearers...
Meet Dr. William Black, a missionary to Kenya
25 April 2015
Dr. William Black
Hi, my name is Bill. I am Orthodox and I am a missionary. I've been accepted by OCMC (Orthodox Christian Mission Center) as a missionary candidate and have been busy raising suppor...





