Do you seek out self-help programs for your self-satisfaction? I did. I have had experience with many of the self-help programs tha...

Happiness is often elusive, especially in our daily work. Life involves many temptations and unexpected troubles. With a solid f...

Elder Ephraim from Simonos Petra Monastery, Mt Athos, Greece, speaks about the depth of Orthodox spiritual life. -Original Greek-Engli...

By Fr. Charles Joiner We often hear people struggling trying to figure out how they can benefit mankind or society. Saint T...

Fr Alexander Rentel, Assistant Professor of Canon Law and Practical Theology at St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, spe...

Today many Orthodox Christians call themselves religious but do not practice a true religion. What do I mean? Let me give two simpl...

When Jesus says, "Follow Me," (John 1:43) what does he expect of us? In the Gospel of Luke it says,  "they forsook al...

 By Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae The question of evil has not been examined much in the Orthodox Church. In comparison to other Chr...

By Priest David Moser Some of the practical conflicts have to do with the daily cycles of Church life: such things as fasting, p...

Orthodoxy is life. If we do not live Orthodoxy, we simply aren't Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold. ...

A few years before he died, Fr. Seraphim received a letter from an African-American woman who, as a catechumen learning about Or...

  Orthodox Confession The spiritual struggle that is required of us can not depend on having a spiritual father. Most Orthodox Ch...

 by Fr. Deacon Charles Those you spend your time with influence your thinking and behavior. If you associate with those who share ...

Author Dr. Norris Chumley and musician and Holywood actor Jonathan Jackson, at their visit to the Monastery of Vatopaidi - Mt Athos,...