Contemporary Issues Archives • Orthodox Life

May 12, 2022 0

Video of a lecture on the flawed contemporary ideology of transhumanism, delivered at Holy Trinity Seminary on May 3rd, 2022 by noted patrologist and author Professor Jean-Claude Larchet

Jordanville Readings, a podcast from Holy Trinity Publications

An Interview with Jean-Claude Larchet

Jean-Claude Larchet and Nicholas Chapman

Jordanville Readings

May 11, 2022 0

An interview conducted on May 3rd, 2022 with noted author and patrologist Jean-Claude Larchet about his life in the Orthodox Church and several of his books.

Group portrait of the participants of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Buchendorf, June, 2017

ROCOR Bishops on the War in Ukraine

HTP Staff

Contemporary Issues

March 16, 2022 0

Links to epistles and correspondence from the Holy Synod, First Hierarch and Ruling Hierarchs of the Russian Church Abroad.

We Are Called to Peace and Communion

Anna Stickles

Contemporary Issues

March 24, 2021 0

"While the world fights over mask wearing and lockdowns, while it riots and engages in political battles, let us as Christians take what St Paul says to heart so that peace and love can reign in the Church."

In Our Sorrows We Drink the Cup of Christ

Dcn. Michael Cook

Spiritual Discipline

April 27, 2020 0

Excerpted from a new release from Holy Trinity Publications, St Ignatius's wisdom is especially pertinent for all of us today navigating life under threat of a pandemic.

A headless man at a cluttered desk with glowing computer screen

New Media and the Impoverishment of Spiritual Life

Jean-Claude Larchet

Contemporary Issues

May 10, 2019 0

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

Deacon Peter Markevich

Contemporary Issues

April 17, 2019 0

"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.

Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine

We Drink from the Cup of Sorrow With Humility and Thanksgiving

Deacon Peter Markevich

Contemporary Issues

December 25, 2018 0

Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onuphry 12.24.2018 No. 1717 His Eminence, The Very Most Reverend Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America...

Ambiguity Serves No One

Deacon Peter Markevich

Contemporary Issues

June 15, 2018 0

Dr Edith Humphrey responds to the famed Orthodox academic, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), and questions his approach to questions of sexual morality.

Non-Komsomol Gingerbread 

Fr Innocent Henderson

Contemporary Issues

March 19, 2018 0

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

Deacon Peter Markevich

Contemporary Issues

May 19, 2017 0

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”

Deacon Peter Markevich

Book Reviews

May 13, 2017 0

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

Digital devices connected through binary code on the internet

Religion and Science in the Information Age

Deacon Peter Markevich

Contemporary Issues

February 23, 2017 0

If the overabundance of information is a cause of distraction and separation from God, a question arises: to what extent...

The Orthodox Christian in the Information Age

Fr Innocent Henderson

Contemporary Issues

December 18, 2016 0

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?