New Media and the Impoverishment of Spiritual Life
Jean-Claude Larchet, in a selection from his new book, The New Media Epidemic, examines the deleterious spiritual effects of our new "connected" existence.
On the Tragic Fire at Notre-Dame de Paris
"It behooves us to recall that Notre Dame was a cathedral built in honor of the Mother of God, and ... France was once a great Orthodox country.
We Drink from the Cup of Sorrow With Humility and Thanksgiving
Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onuphry
12.24.2018 No. 1717
His Eminence,
The Very Most Reverend Hilarion,
Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York
First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad
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Ambiguity Serves No One
Dr Edith Humphrey responds to the famed Orthodox academic, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), and questions his approach to questions of sexual morality.
Non-Komsomol Gingerbread
A short anecdote from the new book "Ordinary Wonders: Stories of Unexpected Grace" on the dangers of a microscope-driven approach to fasting.
Scientism and Mythologies of Progress
Dr Alex Pavuk summarizes the history of scientism as the new religion of modern society in this public lecture delivered at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Misappropriating “Brother-Making”
In light of another recent attempt to read contemporary mores into ancient Byzantine rites, we offer to our readers this review of a study rooted in true scholarship -- Claudia Rapp's Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Religion and Science in the Information Age
If the overabundance of information is a cause of distraction and separation from God, a question arises: to what extent must we cut ourselves off from this sensory overload? Below is a continuation of an Ortho... Read More...
The Orthodox Christian in the Information Age
How should an Orthodox Christian respond to the overabundance of information which bombards us on a minute-by-minute basis through our computers, televisions, and even our phones?
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