Rating: 10|Votes: 24
A struggle began in his mind. One part of him said, “Return the ten hryven, because they are not yours!” Another part of him objected, thinking: “Come on, it’s only ten hryven. Is this really a cause for concern?
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
We sometimes have the idea that God stands outside His creation, peaking down into it and occasionally interfering with the world He made by temporarily suspending its natural and physical laws to create a miracle.
Rating: 5,3|Votes: 9
Our present requires, no, demands, that our two Churches, unlike other Orthodox Churches, focus not on the past but the future. In America, as in Finland, we are required to evangelize if we are to survive. Or to use Tertullian’s imagery again, our two Churches do not have the luxury of living in either Athens or Jerusalem.
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 46
Today, we see the beginnings of a new renovationist movement, and this group is so radical that it makes the "Living Church" look quite traditional by comparison.
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov
Rating: 10|Votes: 25
Today, July 2, 2018, is the sixtieth birthday of Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, the chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, and editor-in-chief of the Russian website, Pravoslavie.ru.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
His Grace Bishop Iacovos leaves behind a beautiful legacy, and he will be deeply missed by everyone who had the privilege of knowing him.
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 17
Having heard the report, the hierarchs of the UOC had a discussion on the prospects of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the modern historical circumstances.
Rating: 4,3|Votes: 4
The new project makes lectures of SVOTS professors and teachers such as Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Fr. John Meyendorff, and Fr. Thomas Hopko available in digital for the first time.
Fr. Eugen Tanasescu
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 19
The Holy Scripture states unequivocally: homosexuality is a sin. That does not imply that he who sins is lost. On the contrary, the Church detests the sin, but loves the sinners and saves them by their correction.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 87
If a respected author writes for a publication whose known purpose is the promotion of a particular agenda, then by that very act he lends credence and credibility to that agenda.
Dr. David C. Ford
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 61
From the point of view of consistency within the Tradition through the ages, it's inconceivable that the Orthodox Church as a whole would ever endorse sodomy – or any other form of same-sex sexual activity – as an acceptable practice, as something consistent with the quest for holiness and purity in spirit, soul, and body which her members have always preached and endeavored to practice.
Vasiliy Shchipkov
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 13
The multiplicity of connotations to the word Russians is evidence not of the weakness of Russian identity, but of the diversity of forces that are fighting for the right to interpret it.
Archpriest Alexander Abramov
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 22
—In such cases I always ask the following question: who asked them to do it? Where are the thousands or millions of people who are going to worship there? Who are the authors of this initiative?
Jean-Claude Larchet
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 105
Whatever the external factors might have been that could have played a role in the collapse of Catholicism (modern attitudes, social pressure, etc.), the internal factors are what appear to be decisive according to the author of this book.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 23
At its session on May 25 at the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church adopted an address to the bishops, clergy, monastics, and laity regarding the initiative for “providing a tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.”
Archpriest Nicholai Balashov
Rating: 8|Votes: 14
Is there today a commonly accepted procedure for granting church independence – autocephaly and what does canon law say about this mechanism? – a detailed explanation given by the vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov.
Aleksei Solonitsyn
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 16
Services at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist were closely tied to the Eastern Rite, and pilgrims from Russia suggested to Brother Basile more than once that he should become Orthodox. And he thought much about that.
Yuri Pushchaev, Michael Khasminsky
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 15
We talked with Michael Khasminsky, Director of the Center for Crisis Psychology at the Patriarchal Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Moscow, on why fake news about the Church are in high demand among some mass media.
Priest Yaroslav Dragun
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 31
“Don’t worry,” his confessor comforted him. “Do this: at your ordination, when the bishop places his hand on your head with the prayer invoking the Holy Spirit—at that moment ask God for everything you want that is spiritual and beneficial; and believe that it will all come true. Don’t doubt it".
Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 9
Xenia Ryabova, five times Paralympic dressage champion, was born with cerebral palsy. Xenia has told me the story of her life which, in my opinion, can be regarded as a modern equivalent of “the story of a real man”.
