Reflections in Christ

In the early days of the immigration of Slavs and other Orthodox Christians to America, many of them succumbed to the lure of the Episcopal Church. They felt it to be non-papal and yet having an external form of devotion...

Orthodox Christians begin and end the liturgical year with celebrations dedicated to the Virgin Mary, whom we venerate as the Theotokos or “bearer of God.” On September 8, the end of the first week of the new year, we...

A devastating cartoon appeared recently in our local paper. The caption reads: “The New Sacrament.” It depicts a somber and stately Episcopal church, with stained glass windows and cathedral ceiling. The view is from the...

We can only imagine what was going through the mind of our Lord, Jesus Christ at the time. He was leading His disciples to Jerusalem. He had been preparing them for the ordeal that He would endure there at the hands of their...

On my shelf are four thick volumes of prayers for special occasions. They are called “Books of Needs.” They include prayers for ewes and cows that cannot give birth, wells that run dry, blessings of fields and barns, but for...

Today’s computers claim to offer instantaneous information on any topic imaginable. One need only to access a topic using the search engines, among the best being Google, the contemporary version of the old-fashioned...

To be a genuine Orthodox Christian is to share in the joy of fellowship gathered around the holy Mother of God, Mary the ever-virgin one. Yet in America a hesitancy arises even with the Church among the faithful. What is so...

O my poor, brave wonderful Serb brothers and sisters. In little more than a decade you have lost to Muslims and atheists so much of your precious territories in Bosnia and Kosovo. My own nation duped by the crafty and...

Two recent cases illustrate the difficulty—and often the agony—experienced by family members and medical teams when they have to decide whether or not to remove life-support from an apparently dying patient.

This past...

Some questions never go away, even those we think we’ve answered once and for all. One of those questions concerns the beginning of human life: when we as human beings actually come into existence. This is a biological...