I have just read two fascinating pieces about Pope Francis’ recent and controversial document Fiducia Supplicans, which officially allows Roman Catholic priests to bless persons in same-sex relationships, one by an Orthodox and the other...
I forget, in the course of my long life as a Christian, how many times I have heard people assure me that “God will never give you more than you can handle”. By this they seemed to mean that God knows my emotional limits and...
If we Gentile Christians are being honest, we secretly find the opening chapter of Matthew’s Gospel something of a bore. This Gospel begins by announcing “the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham”...
I am happy to announce that volume one of my brand new book The Mystical Psalter has been published and is available through Amazon. The book includes a fresh and literal translation of the psalms from the Hebrew, along with comparisons...
On November 10-12 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston hosted a conference of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess, at which Dr. Carrie Frost gave the key-note address, entitled, “Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church...
The St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess has published a file entitled, “Myth-busting: The Truth about Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church”, presenting myths about the proposed creation of a new order of Deaconess and truths to counter...
On November 10-12 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston hosted a conference of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess, an event sponsored in part by the Greek “archons” of the Greek Orthodox Church in America. The...
We continue our look deep into history, examining how much the early Church resembled contemporary Orthodoxy (and Catholicism), and how little it resembled Protestantism.Today we look first at the early Church’s interest and devotion to...
I am happy to announce that my new book entitled Living Faith is now available from Ancient Faith Publishing and through Amazon.com. Like all my other books, I wrote this one for my parishioners and for people like them. ...
John Henry Newman is not among my favourite authors. I read his Apologia many years ago when I was an Anglican priest, and contrived not to be too shaken by it (mostly by closing the book and not thinking about it too much). As...
The call of Isaiah to the prophetic office is narrated in Isaiah 6. Isaiah was in the Temple when he had a vision of Yahweh of hosts, King of the heavenly armies, in all His glory. As Yahweh sat on His high throne, the lower skirt of...
There is, hidden away in the Book of Revelation, a very tiny but precious verse. In each of the highly-stylized and structured messages to the seven churches of Asia that Christ passes along to John, Christ makes promises to those who...
Despite the fact that many people in the past have predicted that the works of the late C. S. Lewis would fade into obscurity and be forgotten (one social commentator once described enthusiasm for his works as a “fad”), his books on...
As far as Joshua was concerned, Moses died too young. Admittedly Moses died at the age of 120, a ripe old age, whether the figure is mathematics or poetry. But doubtless Joshua looked forward to Moses entering the Promised Land and...
I am informed that Sr. Vassa recently presented an in-person lecture and spiritual reflection at the seminar “Women and Lived Orthodoxy” at the New Valaam monastery in Heinavesi, Finland on September 15-17, 2023. Presumably this is the...
