Fr. Alexander Webster illustrates St Paul's exhortation to "outdo one another in showing honor" with examples from the Gospel, film, and his own childhood.
Fr. Alexander Webster explains the role of the Cross in the life of every Christian and how we must "take up" our Cross to attain the heavenly kingdom.
The third installment in a continuing series examining the theological and historical substance of the Emergent Church Movement. Part 3 looks at the phenomenon as natural heir to the Reformation.
Obituary of an Orthodox priest and his matushka, children of the Russian diaspora, who departed this life together, only hours apart on December 10, 2017.
Recorded live at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. An expert in Orthodox Liturgy answers questions on an ancient Christian rite, the Liturgy of St James, the brother of the Lord.
"This notion of a feast of the cross may seem paradoxical to our mind: the cross in the ancient world was an instrument and symbol of inhumane torture and death ... Yet we, Christians, celebrate the Cross of the Lord in a festival and we praise it as the 'preserver of the whole universe … the glory of angels, and the wound of demons.'"
This first installment of an ongoing series gives a broad overview of the Emergent Church Movement (ECM) and describes this loose coalition within a wider Protestant context.
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
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
