"One of the cornerstone messages of the Gospel is the preaching of joy. Having met the myrrh-bearing women after the resurrection, the Lord says to them: Rejoice! And now, on the path toward His suffering on the Cross, He gives His disciples a foretaste of the future of the time of the resurrection."
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.'"
