Archive for March, 2008

Kissing: An Act of Religious Devotion

Kissing: An Act of Religious Devotion

There are no religious laws that require us to kiss a ritual or holy object. There is only the force of custom as it develops through the ages. In varying degrees kissing has become an optional commonplace among the Jews as an expression of religious devotion…

Saint Silouan the Athonite

Saint Silouan the Athonite

Saint Silouan was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov in 1866…