“Life in Christ”

For a very long time interpreters of the New Testament have puzzled over the Greek expression basileia tou theou, which can be translated in various ways. The most common, and most literal, are “the Kingdom of God” and “the...

Another catastrophe, with the unimaginable suffering of countless people buried alive, living their last days in desperation and agony. Now, a week after the 7.0 earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, multitudes of victims...

Theophany is the baptismal feast of feasts. It announces and celebrates as much about our own baptism as it does that of Christ. Both Scripture and the Church Fathers bear witness to the fact that our “illumination” becomes...

Celebration of Christmas, the Nativity of our Lord, invites us to look in a fresh way at the intimate relation that exists between the Incarnation of Christ and his “Second Coming” in glory. Too often Nativity is taken as a...

Today a great many people are entering the Orthodox Church from other, generally Western confessions. Their tendency, quite understandably, is to bring with them notions of sin and guilt, obedience and virtue (merits) that...

A leaf from an old calendar I just came across includes a quote from a Saint Theodoros. The well-intentioned sentiment his thoughts express pose something of a question, if not a problem. He says:

“Faith is a quality...

A few weeks ago my wife and I pulled into a gas station, and I got out of the car and began filling up. A pickup truck stopped about twenty yards in front of us, and the driver started waving and shouting. He was miffed...

A huge amount of controversy has arisen recently over the way Christians receive Holy Communion, particularly in the wake of what some are calling the “H1N1 pandemic.”

The issue involves not only Christians. In July of this...

Back in the early 1960s I attended a Protestant theological seminary that at the time was relatively mainstream. One day, in a seminar on Paul’s letter to the Romans, we got on the subject of death. The teacher was a young...

Christians are being persecuted and killed in countries across the globe right now, simply because of their faith. This, of course, is nothing new. The blood of martyrs has been the “seed of the Church” since the time the...