Rating: 9.9|Votes: 18

Concerning Burning

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Pagans could cremate and burn their dead and be consistent with their religious beliefs. Christians cannot, for Christians believe that the body has too much value to be consigned to the flames.

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 5

The way and the truth of Christ and the Council of Crete

Interview for the journal of the Holy Monastery of Samtavro, Mtskheta, Georgia

Fr. Peter Alban Heers

In conclusion, the overwhelming majority of the faithful in Greece were greatly disappointed with the “Cretan Council” and are looking forward to its clear rejection by the hierarchies of the Local Churches which did not attend, first of all which is the venerable Church of Georgia, but also from the Church of Greece's own hierarchy, the pre-council decisions of which were uncanonically set aside by the Archbishop of Greece when he and his retinue accepted the “historical name” of “heterodox churches.”

Metropolitan Siluan: The Decision of the Synod of Antioch Sets the Course Aright

Loulou Siba

There are preliminary positions that our Antiochian Church and the Church of Russia have expressed, but that does not mean that we are at an impasse.

Rating: 3|Votes: 55

As if Through a Child’s Inner Eye: The Contemporary Icons of Maxim Sheshukov

Fr. Silouan Justiniano

The distinctively fresh and masterful work of Maxim Sheshukov, a contemporary iconographer working in Sviyazhsk (Kazan region of Russia), is another example of the best synthesis of creative interpretation and conformity to Tradition which we can find nowadays. In Maxim Sheshukov’s poetic work we encounter unquestionable dexterity, compositional flexibility, gracefulness of line and subtlety of color.

Rating: 3|Votes: 1

From Fragments to Wholeness

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

A host of silent questions arose in my mind. Why did they, such humble representatives of the people show such respect here? Who was this St. Edmund, that this town had been named after 1,000 years before? What was a saint? How did you become a saint? Why were there only ruins here now? And why were there no longer any saints? So many questions, so few answers and none able to answer them.