The New Year: The Mystery of Time

Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 1,8|Votes: 6

The New Year: The Mystery of Time

Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

On New Year’s Eve we feel the mystery of time more powerfully than at any other time.

Salvation Army walks the walk and talks the talk

Fr. Barnabas Powell

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 8,2|Votes: 5

Salvation Army walks the walk and talks the talk

Fr. Barnabas Powell

So thank you, Salvation Army, for allowing other Christians to better practice their faith — and for allowing me to put on a red apron and wish a gentle “Merry Christmas” to hundreds of strangers, without feeling I’m doing anything wrong.

Night is Not Bright…

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Church History

Rating: 10|Votes: 2

Night is Not Bright…

It was a gray morning when Fr. Vladimir was lead out of town to be shot. As the Red Army members were preparing their firearms, Fr. Vladimir leaned against the pine tree and began to sing that especially memorable irmos which had been heard by him for the last time on this earth at his last Matins: “Night is not bright for the faithless, О Christ, but for the faithful there is illumination in the sweetness of Thy words...”

On the Non-Inevitability of Modernism

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 9|Votes: 10

On the Non-Inevitability of Modernism

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Modernists also use the same pseudo-scientific argument of inevitability to justify themselves. In a post-modernist world, their argument is particularly absurd and old-fashioned.

How To Regard Contemporary Miracles

Professor Alexei Osipov

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 7,5|Votes: 11

How To Regard Contemporary Miracles

Professor Alexei Osipov

What should be our attitude towards contemporary miracles? Professor A.N. Osipov, of the Moscow Theological Academy responds to this question.