I'm currently reading Timothy Ware's "The Orthodox Church." One of the footnotes in the book, p.218, says: "The opening chapters of Genesis are of course...
Was Easter Borrowed From a Pagan Holiday?<http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009/04/was-easter-borrowed-from-pagan-holiday.html> *The historical evidence...
I tried searching the forum for this but didn't come up with much, hence I will post this now. As I have mentioned previously, the cardinal strength of...
*Expiation, Blood and Atonement * by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Among the biblical concepts supporting St. Paul’s theology of atonement, one of the most...
Someone in my congregation had a question from Titus 1. This was my long-winded reply. I'd like an Eastern Orthodox understanding/view to my response if...
Theorists are greatly occupied by the question of the relationship between grace and free will. For anyone who has grace within him, this question is resolved...
Hi, I don't come on here very much anymore, since I'd been immersing myself in the Orthodox Church and its life over the past year. Wanted to just say that I...
I have only recently stumbled across this name and school of Lutheran thought, and was curious as to how well studied and received he is in Lutheran...
There have been a few posts on the "Concordia Series" on Orthodox Christianity taught by Fr. Oliver Herbel that I posted about previously. If anyone is...
Although what I will teach is not typical within current-day Lutheranism, I do see this as being fully Lutheran. Please comments as you wish. How much of...
As a Lutheran, I have struggled in recent years with the Lutheran teaching on such things as "Just War". I'm curious, what does the Orthodox Church teach...
Here is what Bishop Ignatius (Ignaty) Brianchaninov, a renowned spiritual writer and monastic guide of nineteenth century Russia, has to say aboutThe...
Greetings: I was talking to an Orthodox Priest (Andrew Moore) and he shared with me that one of the main purposes of marriage is for the husband and wife to...
Hello all, I would have just continued the third use thread, but it was not allowing me to reply... Randall Hay just wrote what follows (except that great...
Greetings: I'd like to ask you all a favor. Being former Lutherans, can you provide a list of books I can read to help me understand Eastern Orthodoxy,...
A little taste of *The Holy Scripture and the Church* by the new Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey, featured in the newest issue of *The ...
Holy Resurrection Orthodox Mission Church under the Orthodox Church in America is the only active Orthodox parish in the Fargo, ND area - that hot bed of wild...
*Iconography Class with Master iconographer, Phil Zimmerman Icon subject: The Reclining Christ, or Anapeson * *WHEN* Sunday, November 8th, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00...
*Living the Christian Faith in the Orthodox Western Tradition* Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 & Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 All Saints of North America Orthodox Church 2550...
Hi friends, I just got back from a Lutheran Pastor's conference and the topic came up about Semper Virgo - the perpetual virginity of Jesus' mother. Most of...
"Glorious apostle to an age of coldness and unbelief, invested with the grace-filled power of the saints of old, divinely-illumined seer of heavenly mysteries,...
"As hurt and weeping children run to their mother for gentle care and consolation, so do we weak ones run to Thee, O Virgin Mother of the Most High God. Hear...
