Reflections in Christ

When we talk our usual Orthodox church language, a lot of people haven’t the vaguest idea what we’re talking about. This was brought home to me in a rather harsh way not long ago, when a lapsed Catholic monk visited our...

The same eyes that had looked upon the Master with undying affection during His brief period of active ministry on the earth were the same eyes that watched Him expose the traitor that night of the Last Supper. Those eyes...

A sublime moment in the vision given to the apostle John that Sunday morning on Patmos Island—the appearance of a wounded Lamb in the middle of the throne area. He’s at the very center of the whole scene of the throne...

Of course I don’t know how to pray on my own without the Holy Spirit’s help. I never will know how, and the only wise statement I can make about it is that I realize my spiritual limits. I’ve been praying, or listening to my...

I’m told that as a person ages, he requires less sleep. I’m there now, but I never was a sound sleeper. And of course, it’s worse when one is not in his familiar bed. Western Europe is a good place for insomniacs like me....

There is a persistent notion among ourselves as well as among others that we Orthodox don’t read the Bible, at least not outside of liturgical services. However accurate this may have been in past generations, it is...

The little box of CDs wedged between the front seats of our car contains labels such as Mozart’s Piano Concertos 18 & 19, The Vigil service of the Kiev Monastery, Tomaso Albinoni’s Cantatas from Opus 4, and “The Best of the...

The iconographer created a grouping of the twelve men presently canonized as the saints of North America. They occupy the rear wall of our nave. How different this icon is from all the other icons throughout our temple. The...

The Bible has produced three great religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity, with differing relationships to space. And the differences impact upon the United States. At enormous cost in money and effort including...

America is a puzzle even for us Americans. Imagine how we look to the world. We export the majority of what passes for a universal culture. Our motion pictures dominate the screens on six continents. Our television studios...