How to Become a Real Live Human Being 25 May 2011 | 11:47 pm

What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? (Psalm 8:4) We live in a world full of men and women, who are trying to understand themselves.   The existential questio...

A Sermon on the Feast of the Holy Angels 9 Nov 2010 | 04:39 am

Scriptual Text: Hebrews 2:2-10 Luke 10:16-21 IN the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Today is of course the day in which celebrate the Synaxis of the Supreme Commanders Micha...

The Orthodox Church of Finland 13 Feb 2010 | 02:43 am

The “Scandinavian countries[1],” are usually thought of as being Lutheran, and this holds true when speaking of the nation of Finland, which has just over 80%[2] of its inhabitants professing the L...

A Sermon for Prodigal Son Sunday 5 Feb 2010 | 01:22 am

IN this morning’s Gospel lesson, the very famous story of the Prodigal Son, we read of the young man who asks from his father his inheritance…..and his Father obliges him.  So what does the Son do ...

Towards an Ethic of Eating 9 Jan 2010 | 05:41 am

“If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?” — Ezekiel 33:10 …   It might also be asked, how should we then “eat?”  Eating is rarely seen as an e...

"Tell No One . . ." 22 Dec 2009 | 01:30 am

The question is asked, in Mark 8: 27-33, why did Jesus tell His disciples to not tell anyone, that He was the Christ?  The answer to that is that the disciples only understood partially and incomplete...

St. Gregory Nazianzus: A Helmsman for Those Who Would Theologize 28 Oct 2009 | 10:16 pm

Plato once said, “To know God is hard, to describe him impossible;”[1]  to which the Christian Church Father “St. Gregory the Theologian” responded centuries later, “To tell of God is not possible...

I.O.U.S.A. 7 Oct 2009 | 09:42 pm

New Metropolitan of Tripoli 7 Oct 2009 | 12:31 am

Archimandrite Ephrem Kyriakos (of St Michael Monastery Baskinta) has been elected as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Tripoli, Koura and Dependences.  Many years! (photo by Alexa Younes Ishac) Bio:...

The Orthodox Approach to Scripture 22 Aug 2009 | 12:59 am

I’m currently reading through John Breck’s Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and Its Interpretation on the Orthodox Church. In it, Fr. John lists 8 presuppositions of one coming to the Bible with a Pa...