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Truth and love may never be separated. “God is love” proclaims the holy theologian John (cf. 1 Jn. 4:8). Our Lord proclaims, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (cf. Jn. 14:6). Truth and love exist only in God. They are of Him, without Him there is neither truth nor love.In our times,

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January 28, 2022 Apologetics, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis
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If we are attentive to all the Lord does for us, we will endure those times when our prayers seem to go unanswered. That God is not always giving us just what we think we need, in no way means he does not hear us. Our days are filled with gifts from God, most often

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January 28, 2022 Prayer, Senior Contributors, Spirituality
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In this livestream I will be giving a doctrinal overview of Genesis, what Genesis says about God, man and creation and the metaphysics of the garden and the fall.
January 28, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Theology
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One of the great saints of our age, Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos, said people who are filled with egoism and pride because of their education, “resemble satellites that orbit in the sky, giving one the impression that they are stars. If, however, you observe them carefully you will see their crooked steps and see

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January 28, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Senior Contributors
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Love for God frees the Christian from enslavement to this fallen world. It calls us into participation with God; it binds us to Him in a mystical way; God, who is Love, pours Himself into the heart of the believer who seeks Him. Without holy love, there is no indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Without

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January 28, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Praxis
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The following suggestions are going to fit best in a missionary situation that is in urban or suburban America. The more rural the situation, the more other factors would have to be weighed into the mix, and I can’t speak from experience about that.
January 27, 2022 Orthodox Christianity

For the Orthodox Theophany is known as the Feast of the waters. Water is one of these special things that God has given us. Water when blessed retains the blessing. It retains the the action of God's grace. So if we drink a little each day and we sprinkle in our homes, that blessing that

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January 26, 2022 Christology, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Senior Contributors, Spirituality, Theology, Trinitarian Theology
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As Christians, we know the struggle against the passions must be a daily battle, if we are to live according to biblical standards. This quest to defeat the passions is impossible without love, for a loveless heart desires nothing beyond supporting its own ego.
January 25, 2022 Senior Contributors, Spirituality
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In an episode of Protecting Veil, Fr. Turbo discusses the importance of accepting the cross (and reality) of being an outsider in our culture and world.
January 25, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors
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There are three assumptions I can make about you if you’re deciding to convert to the Orthodox Church. First, I assume that your family is not Orthodox. Second, I assume that they are not familiar with fasting, praying twice a day, and going to Church multiple times a week to stand for hours at a time.

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January 24, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity
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St. Mark of Ephesus was a defender of Orthodoxy in the Council of Florence where he rebutted the Latin view of theological issues such as purgatory and Filioque. This video shortly examines some of his prominent arguments against the Filioque such as John 15:26, the patristic witness of the Nicene and Constantinopolitan fathers, and the

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January 24, 2022 Apologetics, Christology, Senior Contributors, Trinitarian Theology
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True Christianity is a renunciation of the ways of the fallen world. A Christian is one who has been chosen out of this world. Like our Master, we must be “not of this world” (cf. Jn 15:19). This fallen system of the world is not our home, “For here we have no abiding city,

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January 24, 2022 Eschatology, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis
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Sins of a sexual nature are common among many people today. Much of the struggle is directly related to the fact that people do not take advantage of having a spiritual father. If you are your own guide the struggles with sexual passions can be beyond your ability to fight, leading to despair.
January 23, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Spirituality
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We are living in an age when many people are finding it difficult not to give over to total despair. I can still remember when I was about 22 and I was so full of self loathing and feeling like I would never amount to anything.  I remember going to see the president of my

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January 23, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality
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The following tips assume that you have a limited budget, and so cannot afford to buy everything at once. If this is not true in your case, there are some books you could skip, but they are good to have on hand in any case.
January 23, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Spirituality

What do anti-Orthodox Catholic memes and liberal memes share in common? Both are full of text that no one wants to waste time reading. Jokes aside, the standard of arguments from Roman Catholics have not progressed for centuries and many of them are barely starting to realize that the Orthodox position is much more nuanced

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January 21, 2022 Apologetics, Trinitarian Theology
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Whenever we have non-Orthodox visitors, I am touched by the look on their faces as they gaze for the first time at the sublime, otherworldly, beauty of the interior of our little temple. They are often speechless, just as one would be when seeing a sunset on a warm summer evening. This first glimpse leaves

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January 21, 2022 Senior Contributors, Spirituality
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There are some elaborate charts that tell you how you could read the Bible all the way through in one year -- which if you followed, would work fine. However, I wonder how many people have ever followed such charts all the way through, because it would require that you make regular reference to the

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January 21, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Spirituality

Having a good reference library on hand is essential for a serious student of Scripture, and particularly for a clergyman who is going to be preparing sermons on a regular basis. What follows is a list of the various categories of reference material, along with a brief description of how texts in that category are

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January 20, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Theology
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It has been almost two years since the appearance of COVID-19 changed life as we know it. This far in, we seem to have more questions than answers. To help us on our journey through the strange "new normal" of Pandemia, we convened a panel of experts from the medical, Orthodox religious, and legal disciplines

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January 19, 2022 Spirituality
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