Dec 21, 2011

St Paul wrote his New Testament advice to elders and overseers. By the end of the first century, St John's disciple Ignatius wrote about how these orders of clergy interacted in his experience...

Nov 12, 2011

Now some of the women who came begging for alms wore ornaments and bracelets, and this was reported to the patriarch...

Mar 17, 2011

Patrick in his own words.
There is no other God, nor ever was before, nor shall be hereafter, but God the Father, unbegotten and without beginning, in whom all things began, whose are all things...

Nov 5, 2008

It's Sunday morning. I am wondering what it will be like to meet Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain and a man regarded by many as nothing less than a modern-day saint. In a time when organized religion seems to have fallen into disrepute and spiritual authorities in general are regarded with suspicion and mistrust, what is it that attracts this man's parishioners to Christian Orthodoxy...

Oct 7, 2008

"Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth," writes Brendan O’Neill. "I am avowedly atheist. But listening to the bishops' drab, eco-pious Christmas sermons, I couldn’t help thinking: ‘Bring back God!’"

Aug 28, 2008

Everywhere you go in Alaska you'll see Orthodox communities. What kind of evangelism was it that was so successful in converting the Native Alaskan peoples to Christ? Here is an example of the sort of preaching that won the Alaskans, translated from the original Aleut.

Jun 26, 2008

Related: The Martyrdom of Cyprian of Carthage Since the Lord warns us, saying, “Ye are the salt of the earth,” and since He bids us to be simple to harmlessness, and yet with our simplicity to be prudent, then what else, beloved brethren, befits us than to use foresight and watching with an anxious heart, both to perceive and to beware of the wiles of the...