“Life in Christ”

Any doubts that Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a true saint, a genuinely holy person, have been amply, if ironically, dispelled by revelations of her self-professed doubt and near life-long journey through “the darkness.”...

When the syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker writes about religion and society, she tends to be right on the mark. It must cost her dearly in the present atmosphere of myopic “tolerance” and abusive PC. As she and a few...

Best-selling, easy-to-read novels can provide welcome distraction when we’re feeling too tired or cooped-up to concentrate on serious literature. Those potboilers, the kind we find in airport bookstores or on the “For Sale”...

When William Lobdell was assigned to the religion beat at his paper, the Los Angeles Times, he was delighted. A born-again Christian, he was preparing to convert to his wife’s faith, Roman Catholicism. As a reporter, he...

When he wrote his various letters to churches around the Mediterranean and throughout Asia Minor, the apostle Paul used a literary convention widespread in the Hellenistic world. He began with a personal identification and...

Will God soon have competition from the laboratory? It’s a question increasing numbers of people are asking, given the spate of articles showing up in everything from serious scientific journals (Science, Nature) to Internet...

The center or heart of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy is made up of a triptych that includes the Words of Institution, the Anamnesis or Memorial, and the Epiklesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit. These elements of the...

To Orthodox Christians the Eucharist or Holy Communion is the very culmination of our life in Christ. It gives direction and meaning to our entire cycle of liturgical services, all of which ultimately serve to prepare us to...

A few months ago someone sent me a posting from an Internet site that spoke to the issue of communion among various Christian confessions. In answer to the question why a Protestant believer was refused the sacrament at...

The so-called Gospel of Judas burst on the popular scene over a year ago. Although scholars had long known of its existence, its presentation by the National Geographic society^[1] created a predictable stir, largely because...