“No Other Foundation”

In the view of many people, what God wants is for everyone to become religious. And given the fact that some religious people are (to be frank) something of a pain in the neck, not surprisingly this view is a hard sell in...

My situation in life can be described in the words of the old children’s hymn written by Susan B. Werner and published in 1868: “Jesus bids us shine with a clear, pure light, like a little candle burning in the night; in...

One of the things which has historically been a point of polemic and conflict between the Orthodox East and the Roman Catholic West is the use of the Filioque clause in the Creed. The word “filioque” is Latin for “from...

“Presented for your consideration,” as Rod Serling would say: photo of what some would say was a beautiful woman.

The woman in question is Lady Diana Mitford, and Mr. James Lees-Milne, who was a friend of the family,...

From my happy home north of the forty-ninth parallel, I look southwards with appreciation for the American vision of freedom. The American national anthem says it well: its star-spangled flag waves over the land of the free...

I offer the observation in the title defiantly, because there is much evidence to the contrary.  Admittedly, I am a happy camper—more or less healthy, my extended family happy and doing well, blessed with a wonderful...

From the days of St. Paul, the Church has been compared to an army. Paul regularly used military language to describe the Christian life, talking about “taking every thought captive” using “the weapons of our...

Our present secular culture has fixed a great gap between people of my generation (i.e. those from the Jurassic period) and modern young people. And this gap is most easily observed when looking at our divergent...

In my years as a priest and of sharing the Gospel, I have heard many reasons offered for not becoming a Christian: scandals associated with clergy, the wealth of the Church, the Crusades, the Inquisition, etc. etc. I thought...

In contemporary Orthodoxy, we are accustomed to referring to Christ as one of the Holy Trinity. He is usually referred to as “Christ our true God”, and the Gospel of John, which stresses His divine status, is, I would...