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[English Edition / Church History]

Your teeth look great — now tell me about Orthodoxy

Fr. Barnabas Powell

“I hear you’re a minister,” the hygienist remarked, fastening the bib around my neck for a dental cleaning. “May I ask what kind?”“Eastern Orthodox,” I said quickly, as the tools of her trade descended. Hygienists are often good conversationalists.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Strength of Oral Tradition

Gabe Martini

In a world characterized by the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the instant knowledge of Google, it’s hard to believe things have not always been so.

[English Edition / Church History]

Why do greeks dye eggs red for Easter?

The choice of red — the color of life and victory — bears a long history and dates to ancient Mesopotamia, where early Christians stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Jesus, who was crucified for the salvation of all mankind.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Pan-Orthodox Council, Ukraine Crisis and Christian Unity

An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.

Where does the Russian Orthodox Church stand on the crisis in Ukraine? And why is a Pan-Orthodox Council planned for 2016?

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

Holy Wednesday. The service of Holy Unction

Fr. Peter Orfanakos

It is a tradition in the Orthodox Church for all the faithful to receive Holy Unction during Great Lent. In many churches, this service is celebrated specifically on Holy and Great Wednesday, after the Matins served that evening.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Akathist Hymn

This beautiful documentary pays tribute to the Theotokos (Mother of God) and explains the importance of her role as intercessor in the Greek Orthodox Church. The origins of Akathist Hymn and other Liturgical hymns dedicated to the Virgin are described. Highlights include: A "Salutation" service celebrated by Bishop Alexios of Troas at St. Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria, NY, and a 12-year-old child chanting Byzantine hymns, with English translations.

[English Edition / Church History]

Young girls in the Romanian village of Mandra make their own IE.

Guest writer Yvette Larsson spoke to Romanian artist Alina Zara of the Mandra Chic workshop, where children and adolescents learn how to make their own Romanian blouses – IE. She also talks to some of the girls learning this traditional craft.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Temple Cult and Early Christian Worship

Gabe Martini

Many Christians today will associate a text-centered focus with Biblical worship, but this was true neither for the contemporary Jewish people of that era nor the early Christians. In fact, a robustly Biblical worship is one that resembles the temple cult as fulfilled in Christ, and not what one might find in contemporary Protestant or even Jewish circles.

[English Edition / Suffering Church]

Sanctity in the Execution Ditches

Lado Gegechkori, Igumen Valerian (Golovenko)

In the winter of 1937, the sound of gunfire could be heard throughout the territory of the Soviet Union… The clergy, who accepted their priestly rank along with a crown of martyrdom, lay in the ditches of common graves, and died from sickness and hunger behind camp gates and in prison walls. What motivated them to take that step?

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Letter from the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops to the Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North and Central America

Archbishop Kyrill (Dmitrieff)

Our primary concern and consideration, as unworthy inheritors of the Lord’s Apostolic charge, is for the salvation of our flock, considered not in terms of potentiality but actuality. Those whom the Lord in His mercy has delivered unto us are diverse in age, background, race and heritage—and, indeed, ethnicity—and for each soul we rejoice as a shepherd who finds the one sheep that has gone astray (Isaiah 53:6; Matthew 18:12-13).

[English Edition / Church History]

History Notes concerning Orthodox Christianity and the Alaska Church

Fr. Michael Oleska

Today, with Cathedrals at Sitka, Anchorage, Unalaska and Kodiak, and nearly 100 churches and chapels across the southern half of the state, with a seminary at Kodiak as well, the Orthodox Diocese of Alaska is the “mother church” for the millions of Orthodox Christians in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

A Lenten Primer

Fr. Evan Armatas, John Maddox

How did the Church arrive at such a season and structure of services? And whether you've been through Lent before or this is going to be your first season, you will see that this is a rather complicated season; there is a lot going on, a number of services you haven't seen. There are new names and phrases for things. Certain spiritual disciplines are highlighted that you may not be aware of, or at least you don't typically them see during the rest of the season.

[English Edition / Church History]

Consorting with the kings and tsars for nearly a millennium

Official diplomatic ties have existed between Denmark and Russia for over 520 years, but their shared history goes back much further than that.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Ecclesial Conservatism in Contemporary Society

Over the past few months, an outbreak of events involving the Russian Orthodox Church has occupied public attention. A series of sensational stories centered on the clergy has evoked a flood of tense conversations in the media regarding the place and role of the Russian Orthodox Church in contemporary society. The situation is continuously becoming more heated, and has already spilled over into open opposition between ecclesiastical and anti-clerical forces.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Iconography in Ancient House Churches

Gabe Martini

Orthodox worship and devotional piety is best understood when it is approached from the standpoint of Christened temple (and synagogal) worship. Christ did not come to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them, and it is in him that we understand the fulfilled worship of Orthodox Christianity—an icon of the heavenly worship.

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

Where There is God, There is Life

January 1/14

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

Before us is an unknown future. Scientists try to ignore the development of events, futurologists describe a distant future, but no one really knows what it will be like, because our Lord is the Lord of history. This historical process is in His hands, and each one of us is a participant.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

Father Victor`s Washington

Tatiana Veselkina

I stood at one side and marveled at the mosaic shining in the sunlight, the tile-work of the church rising to the sky… St John the Baptist Cathedral in America’s capital was built in the Muscovite-Yaroslavl style of the 17th century, like a carved statuette sitting in the palm of one’s hand. There are only a handful of such churches in Orthodox America. How is it that a church devoted to such a sad event came to be in this intellectual, refined city of Washington?

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

Unremitting zeal for the preservation of the grace of the Holy Spirit. Instruction on November 30, the feast of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called

Bishop Vissarion (Nechaev)

Today we celebrate the memory of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. This Apostle means very much to the Russian Church. There is tradition that says that during the course of his apostolic journeys, he reached the hills of Kiev and erected a cross there, blessed the people, and pronounced a prophecy: “On these hills will shine forth the grace of God, and a great city will be created here, and the Lord will raise up many churches in it.”

[English Edition / Church History]

Orthodox Field Guide: Orthodoxy in America

Jamey Bennett

Orthodoxy came to America in four waves. The first wave was by missionary activity in Alaska, a land that belonged to Russia at the time.

[English Edition / Church History]

Reflections on the Separation of Western and Eastern Christendom

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The hiatus between the early and undeveloped culture of Christian Rome and the growth of a new Western Christian culture, between, in other words, the fifth and the eleventh centuries, signified the formation of a different cultural ambience in the West from that in the East. The Christian West did not have the time to Christianize the pagan, classical culture of Rome, whereas the East made a new start.

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