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[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Why Orthodox Men Love Church

Many men may not love church, but Orthodox men do.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

A convert priest says that men are drawn to the dangerous element of Orthodoxy, which involves “the self-denial of a warrior, the terrifying risk of loving one’s enemies, the unknown frontiers to which a commitment to humility might call us. Lose any of those dangerous qualities and we become the ‘JoAnn Fabric Store’ of churches: nice colors and a very subdued clientele.”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Atheism Becoming the New Religion--Professor Warns

Evangelical Christians heard the call on Monday, October 18, 2010 to be guardians of the truth in the face of widespread indifference to religion and the “denial” of Scripture within parts of the church.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Conversion to Christ—Inside and Outside the Church

Fr. Thaddaeus Hardenbrook

As Orthodox Christians, we conform ourselves to the Church’s apostolic understanding that man is a creature of time and space who sets about ‘redeeming the time’ (Eph. 5:16) and who is created to ‘fill and subdue the earth’ (Gen. 1:28). Thus, our salvation is not momentary but eternal. We do not simply think about Christ, nor does He simply ‘do’ something to us. We choose to desire to pursue Him; therefore we ‘deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him’ (Matthew 16:24).

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Deep Roots in Fresh Soil: Orthodox Christianity Comes to Erie (Colorado)

The building is brand-new, the land never before scraped, but the site in Erie where St. Luke Orthodox Christian Church now sits has roots going back nearly two millennia.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

She Who Gusheth Forth Myrrh, Who Healeth Hearts

A Conversation with Sergei Fomin, keeper of the Icon of the Theotokos, ”The Softening of Evil Hearts”

Tatiana Veselkina

This icon is the contemporary work of Sofrino craftsmen. It is an ordinary lithograph. It had been in the apartment of Muscovite Margarita Vorobyova, where it began to gush myrrh. This happened in 1998, after it had been placed on the relics of the blessed Matrona of Moscow, during her glorification on the 2nd of May. After some time, the icon was miraculously transformed, and now many who have seen it cannot tell that it is a lithograph and not an icon painted long ago.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

Archimandrite Seraphim (Rosenberg)

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

First of all, Fr. Seraphim spoke of the monastery with enormous, inexpressible love, as of a most great treasure: "You cannot even imagine what a monastery is! It is a… pearl, a wondrous diamond in our world! You will only appreciate and understand this later." Then he told me about the main problem with monasticism these days: "The trouble with our monasteries today is that people come to them with a weak will." Only now do I have an increasingly greater understanding of how deep Fr. Seraphim's remark was.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Bishop Agapit of Stuttgart Celebrates Divine Liturgy at a New Russian Orthodox Church in Australia

The Central Coast of Australia, with its lakes and ocean beaches, is the nearest recreational area for the four million people living in Sydney. Over the last twenty years, with improvements in roads and public transportation, many people have decided to move from Sydney to this area to be closer to the sea, where the cost of living is lower. Over 300,000 people now live there, many of whom are Russians. The closest Russian Orthodox church being over an hour away, ten years ago, a small group of people in the Gosford area decided to establish their own church. The Diocese supported this endeavor and appointed an Australian priest to the parish, Fr James Carles. Over this decade, many changes have taken place.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Orthodoxy Seems to be Closer and More Comprehensible to Many English People

Interview with Archpriest Mikhail Dudko

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh passed away exactly seven years ago August 4, 2003. He founded a unique Russian Orthodox diocese in Great Britain and united not only Russian natives, but thousands of English believers. Even Prince Charles came to his church services. The number of parishioners is still growing as new Russian immigrants are joining them.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“Russians in Costa Rica Are Only Missing an Orthodox Church”

A talk with Nicholas Zakharov, warden of the Vladimir Mother of God community in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Miguel Palacio

Costa Rica is probably the most peaceful country in Latin America. It has everything a person could dream of. Only an Orthodox church is needed to make a Russian completely satisfied there. In the mid 1980’s, there were practically none of our countrymen there.

[English Edition / Church History]

Crypto-Christians in Pontus (Part 3)

George Andreadis

When the Ottomans of Asia Minor heard of the Greek insurrection, there was a fierce backlash and Trebizond’s governor, Hesref Pasha, gathered the city’s professed Christians into the Ottoman citadel, the Leontokastro, intending to execute them. They were saved only through the efforts of the Ottoman Muslim military commander, Pasha Satir Zade, who warded off the unjust slaughter. Although the news of the Peloponnese revolt was welcomed in the crypto-Christian community, the initial joy was overshadowed by the death of the patriarch, and Kromni’s crypto-Christians worked quickly to counter attempts to fanaticize Kromni’s Muslim neighbors against the professed Christians.

[English Edition / Church History]

Crypto-Christians in Pontus (Part 2)

George Andreadis

There was also, for us, the humorous and long-standing belief of the Turkish Muslims in the surrounding areas that the air of Kromni was very good because no one ever died there! This was because the crypto-Christians held their funerals after dark in their house chapels. In the countryside, people had (and still have) the legal right to bury the dead on their own property, so in Kromni, the crypto-Christians were buried with Orthodox rites in their own gardens. Muslim outsiders never saw the burial services.

[English Edition / Church History]

Crypto-Christians in Pontus (Part 1)

George Andreadis

Although some Greeks remained openly Christian, burdensome taxes and discrimination caused many to convert to Islam and their children today are Turkish Muslims. Another large group said, "No, we will keep our religion, but how will we survive? How can we save our lives and the honor of our daughters?" In the end, they became secret Christians. Although denying Christ, even outwardly, is a sin for a Christian, during these times when many civic leaders, the educated, and wealthy turned to Islam, how could illiterate and primitive mountain people be held accountable? In many cases the Eastern Christian Church accepted the solution of crypto-Christianity so as to withstand the waves of voluntary and compulsory Islamization that were leaving churches empty of believers.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On Missionary Work

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

The history of the Christian world is the history of dramatic interrelationships between God and His new people. The Lord chose and raised up a hitherto unknown people who were sitting in historical darkness. The Lord gave them Himself, and it was good for them, as long as He was their main wealth.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Pain and hope in ancient Orthodox Ossetia.

An interview with Hieromonk Nicodim (Bekenev)

Today South Ossetia is a fertile field for pastoral work. Most of the people who live there consider themselves Orthodox, and feel linked with Russia not just politically, but more importantly, spiritually. The gap which formed in Church life under the soviet regime is now disappearing. People are going to church, and there is a great thirst for the word of God. The holy fathers say that the most important conditions for salvation are memory of death and fear of God—and that is what people who live there have.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Thorny Path to God

An interview with Elena Skorokhodova — actress, film director, and playwright

A true artist should transform the world, inspire it, uplift man above his animal nature, raise his thoughts to heaven, and reveal to him the image of God that is within himself. Bad art “animalizes” the viewer, arouses his instincts, and finally lowers his human dignity.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

“American Indians may become the largest ethnic group in the American Orthodox Church.”

An interview with His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

In early December of 2009, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada (Orthodox Church of America) visited Russia to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the OCA’s representation in Moscow. Correspondent Miguel Palacio took the opportunity to talk with Metropolitan Jonah about the OCA’s presence in Latin America.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Can One Consider the Death of Father Daniel Sysoev to be a Martyrdom?

Hieromonk Job Gumerov

Father Daniel Sysoev carried out his missionary activity among Moslems. His Evangelical preaching was very successful: He converted and baptized many people; he received death-threats in response. His answer to such threats was to preach Christ with still greater zeal.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

On the Death of my Husband: The matushka of the martyred priest Daniel speaks and reveals that a prophecy has been fulfilled

Matushka Julia Sysoieva

Dear brothers and sisters, thank you for your support and prayers. This is the pain which cannot be expressed in words. This is the pain experienced by those who stood at the Cross of the Saviour. This is the joy which cannot be expressed in words, this is the joy experienced by those who came to the empty Tomb.

[English Edition / Theology]

Search for Truth on the Path of Reason

Alexei Ilyich Osipov

New from Sretensky Monastery, a classic of Christian apologetics by Professor Alexei I. Osipov: The Search for Truth on the Path of Reason, is now available in English. Alexei Ilych Osipov of the Moscow Theological Academy is possibly the most widely known professor of Theology in Russia today.

[English Edition / Theology]

Saint Hilarion (Troitsky). The Unity of the Church and the World Conference of Christian Communities

This brilliant defense of traditional Orthodox ecclesiology by the Holy New-Martyr Archbishop Hilarion — who received a martyr's crown on December 15th, 1929 —, does not seem to be well known, probably owing to its limited publication decades ago by a small monastery press in Canada.

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