Ministry leader for Orthodox Christians for Life, content creator, mother of eight, Alex Gooding, shares her extraordinary fertility journey, defying doctors who told her she’d never conceive. With 8 children earth side and a few in heaven, Alex has faced it all: unplanned pregnancy, infertility, carrying twins, miscarriage, NICU, IVF, pressure to abort, and more.
Veronika Buzinkina
We not only helped, but we benefited a lot from it ourselves. Overall, any remembrance of life as a fleeting moment sobers up our soul.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Whatever one might think of grace, the work of Christ on the Cross in no way removes the work of the Cross from the lives of believers.
Stevimir Ercegovac — a former professional track and field athlete and Olympian — along with his wife Karolina and their seven children, literally fled from Canada and Croatia, where they had been living, to the Russian city of Pskov.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
Nowadays many if not most people tend to believe more in the existence of aliens than in angels.
Valeria Anpilova
Several months have passed since my trip. I felt an urge to go to church and have now started attending regularly. I have long sensed that God exists, so I was as if living in anticipation of the right moment to come to Him.
Anastasia Grishunina
This work became a symbol of the victory of the human spirit, a symbol of resistance to fascism in the language of music.
Dr. Pino discusses the consistent witness of the Church Fathers, the encyclicals of the Church of Greece (1937 & 1978), and the myths surrounding contraception in the Orthodox world.
Alexander Popov
The uniqueness of this book is that it was written by a Catholic, but it offers a profoundly Orthodox understanding of sin and grace, holiness and pride.
Our people have never known such a Mother who could gather us all under Her protection.
Hieromonk Silouan (Yaroslavtsev)
I arrived in a city where all the stores were closed on Sundays, even including grocery stores. It seems to me that if we call ourselves an Orthodox nation, we could learn from them.
Archbishop Alexei (Trader) of Sitka and Alaska
On the eve of the meeting in Alaska between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska Alexei (Trader) called upon Orthodox Christians to undertake a special three-day fast and prayer for the sake of peace.
May the raven die in the human heart, and the dove, the grace of the Holy Spirit, spread wings instead.
Archbishop John (Shahovskoy)
Created by God, redeemed by Christ the Savior, the person does not belong to himself but to God. The sin is not in the fact of physical burning of the body but in the false direction of the person’s will to rule over God’s property, which his body is.
Maria Polyanskaya
That difference lies in this: either you do the work with joy, love, and empathy—the kind of work you simply cannot do without those three things—or you won’t last even a single day.
Oksana Golovko
The Volga attunes you to prayer. Maybe when we cease to exist physically, and the Volga continues to carry its waters, someone will sigh prayerfully for us as well?
Igor Lunev
The soul does not depend on your intelligence level. A full-fledged soul lives even in a very defective body.
Alexandra Gripas
Suddenly, I shouted loudly and clearly, with tears: “Lord, help me! Lord, help us! Save my daughter,” and I titled her head to the floor. I heard the candy come out of her wrong pipe and fall to the floor.
Sergei Mudrov
Probably it was the benevolence of God that the Serbs, long-suffering from the hardships of wartime upheaval, were able to send their children to such school where no one would reproach them only because they were Orthodox Serbs.
Counterflow host Buck Johnson spoke with Hieromonk Silouan (Brown), head of the Orthodox Africa mission, about the trials and tribulations of his life, his work in Africa, and the many blessings of St. John (Maximovitch).
