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[English Edition / Theology]

The Churching of Women

Kathryn Wehr

A few months ago I witnessed my first “Churching”—a liturgy said for a new mother when she returns to church, usually 40 days after the birth of her child. Often it is done just before the child’s baptism. The mother waited with her infant daughter at the back door of the church, facing the iconostasis. The priest came and read the Churching prayers and then led them and their friends and family forward to the baptismal font set in front of the royal doors. Churching follows a long tradition of purification prayers for new mothers used in both the Christian East and West, but they have fallen out of use in some places because people are ambivalent about what these prayers mean, particularly references to the woman’s uncleanness and sin.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

There is no middle ground between the Truth and a Lie” (St. Mark of Ephesus); or, to what Church do the followers of priest Georgiy Kochetkov belong?

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

Priest Georgiy Kochetkov is the leader of a heretical movement within the Russian Orthodox Church. His activities have lead to a considerable disturbance among the Orthodox, and his community is in conflict with the rest of the Orthodox community in Russia. Even more alarming is that it he is not content to confine his activity to Russia, but is attempting to spread it in other countries among people new to the Church, who do not know better. Biblical scholar and hieromonk of Sretensky Monastery Fr. Job (Gumerov) explains why Fr. Georgiy Kochetkov’s teachings are heretical in the extreme.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Linthicum: Written on the wall - local man prays with paint at Holy Cross

The interior of the 100-year-old stone church on Camp Meade Road has been painted many times, always pure white. But since July, many new colors have been appearing on the walls. Seraphim O’Keefe, an iconographer, has been filling the church with images of holy men and women from across the centuries.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

A Short Story of the Brief Life of Slava the Czech

Olga Rozhneva

It’s cold. Thorny flakes of snow strike his face amidst the swirling snowstorm. Where is the earth, where the sky? Nothing but whiteness and indifference, nothing but loneliness and anguish, just like the life of Slavka, otherwise known as “the Czech”. He has nowhere to go; no one is waiting for him, anywhere. Why is he living? Why was he born? He tries to forget, raising his head to the empty sky to forget all that is bitter and wearying, to spill out his pain.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Getting to Know the Virgin Mary

During my conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, I had myriad experiences that sat in stark contrast to the nondenominational, Protestant faith I had carried since childhood. One of the most challenging things to grasp was the apparent prominence of the Virgin Mary in the Church.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

"Everything has come into place"

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Anton Pospelov

It was all a very homey atmosphere. The head cowboy, for example, said, “We have with us today John and Mary. They are on their honeymoon trip. Let’s give them a warm welcome! Let’s be glad for them, that they are so beautiful and young, have had their wedding and are now travelling around our country. John and Mary, come on up!” This young couple comes forward and everyone shouts, “John and Mary, hello! All the best to you!” This was touching, what can I say…

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

Archimandrtie Tikhon (Shevkunov): “Seeing young Chinese Christian seekers is the most astounding experience I’ve had in a long time.”

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Anton Pospelov

It all began when some Chinese people calling themselves Christians expressed the desire to make my acquaintance after one of them read my book, Everyday Saints in English. To tell you the truth, these new acquaintances of mine couldn’t really say what confession they are in—they just read the Gospels, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, pray to Him, and firmly and stubbornly consider themselves Christians. Some of them are not baptized at all, others were baptized by Protestants, yet others by Catholics…

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

“Each of us must become an apostle.” A talk with Archimandrite Theologos (Chrysantakopoulos), a missionary to the Congo

Svetlana Khmeleva

A missionary should first of all witness the good tidings of the gospel as it has been preserved by the Orthodox Church over the centuries—without change, without additions, without omissions. We have to look at our brothers (and we are all brothers, children of the one God, be we baptized or not) as at an icon, the image of God. We must respect the traditions by which people live, apply what is best of them. If tradition contradicts the spirit of Christianity, we have to explain this to people with love, without offending them.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Liberal heroes embraced conservative values before their deaths

Jack Kerouac, John Lennon, Bob Marley and to a lesser extent, Phil Lynott of the Irish Rock group Thin Lizzy, have all been considered as liberal icons by more than a few who consider themselves left-of-center both politically and socially.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Small-town Orthodoxy brings diverse group together

The Metropolis of Chicago, one of the Greek Orthodox managing bodies in the United States, granted the small community of Orthodox Christians in the heart of Missouri parish status in 2002. The church was named St. Luke’s the Evangelist Greek Orthodox Church. And from day one, St. Luke’s has been growing, but it has never been just Greek. “I consider it my home now,” Ina Cernusca said. Cernusca and her family immigrated to Columbia from Romania in 2001, and have been a part of St. Luke’s since it was established.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

Orthodoxy in Pakistan

Denis Grishkov

That night, about 110 Catholics joined the Orthodox faith. The next day I was also able to baptize about 74 people from 10 Pakistani families. I asked people why they were so interested in my sermon, and they said that they were touched that I, as an Indian, came to them to preach Orthodox Christianity to them, and that I did not look at them as some kind of bad people, I did not judge the way they looked—these Pakistanis are poor, simple peasants.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Ecclesiology of Community and the Need for Tangible Unity in North America

Bishop Maxim Vasiljevic

The Church is a unity of charismas (a variety of orders and ministries) all of them existing simultaneously and in intimate interdependence. This unity of orders and the clergy-laity distinction marks the early Church in a decisive way. In this context, the head of this community (bishop) did not have authority merely intrinsic in his office alone, but in everything he said and did was in constant need of the presence and so to say the approbation of the other orders in the Church.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Ancient Art Comes To Syracuse

When local artist Brian Whirledge reached a plateau in his craft, he sought a teacher who could instruct him further.

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

Father Daniel Sisoyev’s Posthumous Mission: Three Stories

Deacon Giorgi Maximov

On November 19, 2009, priest Daniel Sisoyev was killed. He was a missionary, a preacher, and a talented orator, whose word both spoken and written roused people from their spiritual torpor and led them to Christ. Fr. Daniel’s followers speak different languages, live in various countries, and have varying experience in preaching, but they are all united by one thing—they know that it is their duty to spread to as many people as possible the truth of these words: “there is no salvation outside the Church”.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Our Joyous Response to God’s Blessings

Rebekah Moll

When we become truly conscious of the gifts of God, we no longer have the time to ask for anything. We keep going and saying Thank You….Thank You…Thank You…Thank You… We see a person…Thank You…We see a flower…Thank You…We see a glass of milk…Thank You…Thank You….for everything! And such a joy enters into our life that many, even of those that are close to us, cannot understand what’s all this. When I lived in England sometimes people asked: What’s up? Why are you so happy”? “Because I am alive and I see you…Good day to you”!

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Road to Rome? Why Orthodoxy Deserves a Second Look

Vincent Martini

For those who aren’t aware, Catholic Lane is a well-maintained Roman Catholic news and resource site that I have had the pleasure of contributing to from time to time (by the gracious invitation of their staff). While there are (from an Orthodox perspective) a great number of differences between our two churches — and we are not in full communion, nor really anywhere close to it — there are still many ways in which our two worlds overlap and our distinctives and theological viewpoints merge.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Theological Study, the Spiritual Life, and Russia Today: A Conversation with Fr. Gabriel (Bunge)

The following conversation with Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel (Bunge), the renowned patristics scholar from the Skete of the Holy Cross in Switzerland, was held during his visit to Moscow in early November 2012

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

A floating church launches divine journey

Every year, the Novosibirsk floating church, with priests and doctors on board, visits villages 60 miles out from the banks of the Ob River. The idea of sending a floating church down the Ob came from the Rev. Alexander Novopashin, dean of the Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky. The first time the boat set off on a missionary trip was in 1996. A year before this, priests had travelled through Novosibirsk Region on the Memorial Train, which was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of V-E Day.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

"We teach our Parishioners that We are Missionaries in America"

In America, people speak openly and eagerly about religion. This is a special characteristic of the American people. That doesn’t necessarily mean serious, profound discussions of matters of faith. People walking to the grocery store, or taking a walk, are genuinely interested in what church their friends go, what their faith is about, which religion they confess, etc. The overwhelming majority of Americans consider themselves religious, even if they don’t attend church. This allows us to talk to them freely about our Orthodox Faith.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Erie church to share information about Orthodox Christianity

With its golden domes above the bayfront, Erie's Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ is one of the city's most visible places of worship.

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