For a quarter of a century the Orthodox Church in America has been blessed by the leadership, the vision and the prayer of Metropolitan Theodosius. From seminary commencements, to All-American Councils, to Ground Zero and...
Dylan Thomas wrote some eminently quotable lines on the subject of death. The most familiar and powerful are also the most troubling.
...“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Miraculously, Orthodox Christianity has preserved the essence of “the faith once delivered to the saints.” By the sheer grace of God, it has maintained the Apostolic Faith in the face of extraordinary pressures, from...
In Orthodox liturgical tradition, the rhythm of Great Lent is interrupted, and in an important sense fulfilled, by the Feast of the Annunciation. As we journey with Christ through the last days of His earthly ministry, our...
There are questions little children ask that never seem to receive a satisfying answer. The toughest and most urgent tend to be religious, such as “Who is God?” or “Where is God?” In the wake of recent tragic events that...
“No need to rush,” my wife assured me as we bumped over ruts and small branches strewn along the dirt roadway that leads through the woods to the main road nearly a mile from our house. “We’ve got plenty of time.” It was...
The Feast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple, celebrated on February 2, is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox liturgical year. Its theme is expressed with particular poignancy by the icon we venerate on...
Over the past few months the media have focused almost exclusively on the continuing threat of terrorism at home, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. As a result, our attention has been drawn away from what is potentially a more...
This is a date we shall never forget. Images of planes hurtling into the twin towers, the collapse of the buildings, the faces of the police, firefighters and other rescue workers who lost so many friends and co-workers, the...