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Holy Fire
ORTHODOXY: STANDING IN THE FLAMES OF THE SPIRIT Excerpted from The Way of Christ by Father Ted Stylianopoulos, professor of New Testament at Holy Cross Seminary in MA and a speaker at our 2000 Spiritual Odyssey Festival. Life is a journey with many stages from birth to death. As the journey progresses new challenges arise. [...]
The Spiritual Father in the Community of St. Pachomius
by Father Steven Tsichlis The spiritual traditions of the desert are not dead and buried, subjects appropriate only for historians and archaeologists, but rather a living deposit of faith which is not irrelevant to our own age. The recent publication of fine English translations1 of two primary sources concerning this tradition help us to paint [...]
Icons From Our Acolyte Room
The Nativity of the Theotokos The mother of the Theotokos, St. Anna is being attended by handmaidens. Her father, St. Joachim is attending to the Theotokos at the lower right. Notice that she appears as a small adult, which is typical in iconography. Notice her very interesting crib....it looks like a [...]
Two Perspectives on the War in Iraq/2003
Washington Post / http://www.washingtonpost.com/ April 6, 2003; Page B07 Stripped of Spiritual Comfort By Frank Schaeffer A few weeks ago my wife, Genie, and I got the news that our Marine son, John, would shortly be deployed to the Middle East. He is gone to war now. We have been dreading this moment. We don't [...]
American Salvation: The Place of Christianity in Public Life
by Albert J. Raboteau G.K. Chesterton once called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was referring, in part, to the habitual tendency of Americans to cast political and social events as scenes in the drama of salvation. From the start America’s story was a religious story. In the 1630s English Puritans [...]
Harvard Commencement Address: A World Split Apart
by Alexander Solshenitsyn The Commencement Address at Harvard: June 8, 1978 A World Split Apart I am sincerely happy to be here with you on the occasion of the 327th commencement of this old and illustrious university. My congratulations and best wishes to all of today's graduates. Harvard's motto is "VERITAS." Many of you have [...]
The Homosexual Christian
by Fr. Thomas Hopko Many gay men and lesbians claim that the Christian faith is the guiding rule of their lives. Some of them hold that their sexual orientation is given by God, that it is good, and that there is nothing wrong or sinful with their homosexual activities. These persons say that the Bible [...]
