The World Loves its Own

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Concerning the truth and harmony between the teachings of the Fathers of the Eastern Church and Holy Scripture, and about the false direction of the ascetics of the Western Church and their writings.

Rating: 5.3|Votes: 27

Were David and Jonathan Gay? A Critical Analysis of a Popular Assumption

Eric Jobe

There are any number of problems with this idea, but I want to offer a critical perspective on the issue in order to demonstrate that such an idea is not one that can be legitimately advanced from the realm of critical scholarship.

Rating: 8.4|Votes: 5

His Grace Bishop John of Caracas and South America: My Challenge is to Heal the Schism and Return the Flock and Our Churches

What did our ancestors do to deserve such reverence, how will parish life change in the next 20 years, what problems are being faced today by Orthodox Christians in Latin America? These were the topics discussed by Bishop John.

Remembering Metropolitan Antony Bashir on the 50th Anniversary of His Repose

As time passes, fewer and fewer people—even within the Antiochian Archdiocese—are still with us, who can vividly recall Metropolitan Antony Bashir, the man whom the late Fr. Alexander Schmemann called a “founding father of the American Church.”

Rating: 10|Votes: 19

“He spends all his time in the cathedral and even forgets to eat.”

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) as the soviets saw him (1955)

Hierodeacon Theophan (Bortnikov)

Today is the tenth anniversary of the repose of Archimandrite John (Krestiankin). To commemorate him we present an unusual testimony to his zeal and Christian love—a sort of apophatic approach to the biography of a saintly man. It comes from reports written by the Pskov plenipotentiary for religious affairs A. I. Luzin, whose job it was during the atheist Communist period to watch Fr. John’s every move and report back on his “crimes”.