Urban Mission Retreat — Equipping Orthodox Missionaries — June 20-24, 2012
Webmasters: Download the code (text file) to display this flyer on your site. How can I make a difference here at home? In June 2012, St. Raphael church is hosting a hands-on missionary retreat to take...
View ArticleAdvice Orthodox Can Heed — Abp. Timothy Dolan: A Good Time to Revive Your Faith
Roman Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan offers advice that applies to Christians across the board. Some highlights: If there is not some sacrifice, hardship, and challenge to living our Catholic faith,...
View ArticleFr. Peter-Michael Preble: Sunday of Orthodoxy Calls us to Emulate the Courage...
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble tells us just as our Orthodox Fathers fought to preserve the sacred images (because they knew that destroying the icons of Christ would lead to a denial of the Incarnation in...
View ArticleEgypt’s Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III dies
Source: BBC Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III has died at the age of 88, state television has announced. The leader of the Middle East’s largest Christian minority was reported to suffer from...
View ArticleAttn: Grand Rapids, MI — Edith Humphrey Speaks Tonight (March 23, 2012) at...
The West Michigan Orthodox community is gathering for the 4th Salutations to the Theotokos (Akathist Hymn) on Fri., March 23, at 7:00 pm at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church. Following the...
View ArticleAncient Faith Goes Live! First Program this Sunday at 8pm Eastern
I hope all of you tune in this Sunday. Along with Dr. John Mark Reynolds, I will be discussing “Atheism” particularly the New Atheism, our responses to it as informed by our Orthodox faith, and so...
View Article60 Minutes on the Plight of Palestinian Christians
Source: The Atlantic APR 23 2012, 8:46 AM ET 280 By Robert Wright Last night’s 60 Minutes segment about the plight of Christians in the West Bank has gotten a lot of attention, in part because of the...
View ArticleIs This the Most Beautiful Orthodox Church in the World?
Below are some pictures of the consecration of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kronstadt, Russia. A window to heaven has opened and the harmony of the unseen and uncreated are made visible to man. The Church...
View ArticleSilent Clergy Killers: ‘Toxic’ Congregations Lead to Widespread Job Loss
– Source: Huffington Post They are called “clergy killers” — congregations where a small group of members are so disruptive that no pastor is able to maintain spiritual leadership for long. And yet...
View ArticleFr. Gregory Jensen On Our (Orthodox Christianity’s) Cultural Failings
Fr. Gregory Jensen wrote the following response to my essay (Catholic Online: The Republic is Finished and the America We Knew is Gone). It’s good, really good in fact, and I am posting it here to...
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65 Orthodox Church Bishops Call on Obama to ‘Rescind’ the ‘Unjust’...
Source: LifeSite News NEW YORK, NY, February 6, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 65 canonical bishops of the Orthodox Church have asked President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary...
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Obama and the Dictatorship of Relativism
When the Manhattan Declaration first came out, Orthodox signers came under considerable criticism. Too much culture wars was the usual response. I signed the document because I saw that efforts to...
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Russian Orthodox Church Canonizes New Martyr Who Died at the Hands of the Nazis
– Source: Orthodox Cognate The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has canonized Russian national Alexander Schmorell, a native of Orenburg, who was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 for...
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Catholic Politicians Who Attack Church Should Remember God’s Judgment
With stern words Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois warned Catholic politcians last Friday that any collaboration with “assaults against the faith” would one day face the judgment...
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Deconstructing the ‘Internal Contradiction’ in the GOA
Andrew Estocin asks: Father JJ, how do you see this internal contradiction playing out with regards to the riots and unrest in Greece? The GOA has never addressed the moral and social underpinnings of...
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Urban Mission Retreat — Equipping Orthodox Missionaries — June 20-24, 2012
Webmasters: Download the code (text file) to display this flyer on your site. How can I make a difference here at home? In June 2012, St. Raphael church is hosting a hands-on missionary retreat to take...
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Advice Orthodox Can Heed — Abp. Timothy Dolan: A Good Time to Revive Your Faith
Roman Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan offers advice that applies to Christians across the board. Some highlights: If there is not some sacrifice, hardship, and challenge to living our Catholic faith,...
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Fr. Peter-Michael Preble: Sunday of Orthodoxy Calls us to Emulate the Courage...
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble tells us just as our Orthodox Fathers fought to preserve the sacred images (because they knew that destroying the icons of Christ would lead to a denial of the Incarnation in...
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Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III dies
Source: BBC Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III has died at the age of 88, state television has announced. The leader of the Middle East’s largest Christian minority was reported to suffer from...
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Attn: Grand Rapids, MI — Edith Humphrey Speaks Tonight (March 23, 2012) at...
The West Michigan Orthodox community is gathering for the 4th Salutations to the Theotokos (Akathist Hymn) on Fri., March 23, at 7:00 pm at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church. Following the...
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