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[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

The Narthex as a Dynamic Place of Transformation

Fr. Vasile Tudora

From an Architectural perspective‚ the Orthodox Church is also trying to represent this dynamic association between the Old Covenant and the New‚pointing towards the promised Kingdom. Entering an Orthodox temple we see an carefully crafted advancement from the Narthex‚ through the Nave and towards the Altar.

[English Edition / Theology]

“The Hidden Source of Heresy Is Always the Pride of the Human Mind”

The Memory of the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils

Archimandrite Boris (Dolzhenko)

The danger of heretical teachings lies in the fact that the error is so cleverly veiled, argued, and mixed with true words that the inexperienced person will find it difficult to determine what is right and what is wrong.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

In Defense of the Holy and Great Council

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, during his opening address at the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, quoted the preacher with the golden mouth, St. John Chrysostom: “For the term ‘church’ is defined as a system and synod.” Both the term ‘church’ and the system of synod have generated a great deal of discussion recently and regrettably some division as well.

[English Edition / Church and State]

The Tsar-Martyr's Icon

The story of the miraculous finding in Altai of a royal icon painted by order of the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II

Ksenia Yermishina

The history of Russia and the Romanov dynasty are so closely interwoven other that any new facts connected with the royal family become a real discovery of national importance. Until recently we knew of two holy icons associated with the House of Romanov. But not long ago it became known that there was another, a third icon which shared the destiny of the Royal Martyrs.

[English Edition / Church and State]

Bastille Day Is Nothing to Celebrate

Steve Byas

To understand why such men of the Left so admired the French Revolution, with its savage attacks upon Christianity, liberty, property, and life itself — symbolized by the guillotine for “enemies of the people" — we need only note how and why it came about. This will also reveal why the popular image described above of the storming of the Bastille is a gross fabrication of actual historical events.

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

The Synaxis of All Saints of Britain and Ireland.

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

On August 21, 2007, the Holy Synod of the Russian Church officially approved the veneration of all the saints who shone forth in the lands of Britain and Ireland, blessing the annual celebration of their memory on the third Sunday after Pentecost. This feast is in honor of all the saints who lived in England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland until 1054, when most of Western Europe tragically broke away from the One Church.

[English Edition / Church History]

Tracing Alaska's Russian Heritage

Fen Montaigne

From onion domes to tsarist-era Russian dialects, evidence of the Russian colonialism remains

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Reflecting on the Message of the Holy and Great Council

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church came to an end causing little notice in the world at large. The Council’s goal seemed to be to have an assembly of bishops which changed nothing, and any event that changes nothing is not very news worthy.

[English Edition / Church History]

An Exclusive Creed

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Why this insistence on exclusion? The Fathers of Nicea wanted to exclude heresy from the Church for the same reason that a doctor wants to exclude cancer from the body of his patient—because if he includes the cancer in the patient’s body, the result will be the death of the patient. Cancer kills, and so does heresy. Heresy is not simply incorrect opinion, akin to getting a numerical sum wrong. Heresy is stubbornly refusing to accept the truth, in exactly the same way as someone who has been poisoned might stubbornly refuse to accept swallowing the antidote. A person who has been poisoned will die. And the good intentions of the heretic notwithstanding (for who knowingly accepts error?), the person who refuses God’s provided remedy of Christ will also die.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

VIDEO: The memory of the Solovetsky islands

Pavel Inzhelevsky, Ruslan Faizulin, Anna Levicheva, Ludmila Averianova, Ilya Krol

In August 2015 the RBTH team went to Solovetsky islands (or Solovki) to try to thread all the historical strands into a single fabric and answer the question: what lies buried in Solovki’s memory?

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Just before the Holy and Great Council

Met. Hierotheos Vlachos

Many texts have been written recently by experts and non-experts, by those who are competent and those who are not, on this great event. Unfortunately, as I have pointed out in another text, in some of them we see that theology is mixed with politics, or rather, various ecclesiastical elements get involved knowingly or unknowingly in the aspirations of politicians, and politicians, too, use various ecclesiastical elements in order to implement their plans through the Church.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Photo Contest: “Destruction of Monuments of Eastern Christianity”

On June 3, 2016 the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy announced the results of their second annual photo contest dedicated to the “Destruction of Monuments of Eastern Christianity.”

[English Edition / Church History]

The Fall of Constantinople, Queen of Cities

Evagelos Sotiropoulos

On May 29, the Orthodox Church remembers the Fall of Constantinople, the Queen of Cities, in 1453. Named after Saint Constantine the Great, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). Although Byzantium’s vast power spanned 11 centuries, its story is often held hidden.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Murder of a Child and the Troubles of a Nation

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

Reading of such distant personages as Tsarevich Dimitry and the anti-Dimitries, or “false Dimitries”, we Orthodox Christians are drawn to look at our own selves, at how our own human ambitions can lead us to destroy what is innocent and authentic, and what terrible consequences this can bring for us and everyone around us.

[English Edition / Church History]

The “Model of Meekness”, and Slapping Arius

Orthodox Pastors on Zeal for God

Anna Erakhtina

When contemplating how they should oppose enemies of the Church, Orthodox Christians often recall St. Nicholas, who slapped Arius in the face. Several Russian Orthodox clergymen talk with us about the saint’s “intolerant” deed.

[English Edition / Theology]

"In the Beginning:" The First Day of Creation

A Study on the Book of Genesis

Jesse Dominick

God is humble so we should be humble, and you can read the Scriptures as being entirely this story—God can do anything, and without Him we can do nothing. If God can create out of nothing He is infinitely greater than us. It’s essential for us to find in every verse and in every moment of life ways to become humble. We hear these verses all the time and it’s so easy to read one verse and pass onto the next, but if we can stop and think about what it’s really saying about God and ourselves in comparison to God, it will help us to find our humility which is an essential beginning point to the spiritual life.

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

Romanov family photos now in color

Ksenia Isaeva

Russian artist Olga Shirnina (also known as 'klimbim') colors archive images of Romanov family.

[English Edition / Church History]

On Celtic Orthodoxy

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The monastics in the British Isles, like the monastics across the Christian world of Late Antiquity, became a primary force within the whole of Church life. They were missionaries. They were librarians. They were copyists. They were authors. They were hymnographers. They were a hedge against the power of the state. They were protectors of Orthodox teaching.

[English Edition / Church History]

From Russia With Love

Saving the Heart of Old Cook Inlet

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

Bright Friday: The Life-Giving Spring of the Theotokos

After Leo became Emperor as the Most-Holy Theotokos had prophesied he raised up a church over the spring, whose waters worked many healings and cured maladies by the grace of the Theotokos; from this, it came to be called the "Life-giving Spring." The Church of Christ celebrates the consecration of this church on this day.

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