The Crisis of Confessing Christ in Public

Fr. Alexander Webster discusses various ways we can confess Christ in public in his homily “The Crisis of Confessing Christ in Public” at St. Herman Orthodox Church, Stafford, VA, Sunday, July 17, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjAdyOasuRc

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Don't Fear Poverty

Don’t Fear Poverty

On Wealth and Poverty is my second book by Saint John Chrysostom, a Church Father who is highly venerated in the Orthodox Church. It is difficult to find a set of his complete works so the best I

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Artificial Christianity

Artificial Christianity

in hypocrisy if we are not mindful of the pitfalls of the spiritual life. We can become Pharisees without even noticing, if we let our Christianity be artificially lived. Living our lives as though we have been rehearsed

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Don’t Surrender to Despondency

Don’t Surrender to Despondency

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

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Come Home

Come Home

I want to address the subject of the Orthodox Church. Having grown up Protestant. I can remember being taught that if you are a Christian, you belong to the church. And by definition, the church was this invisible

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Absolution

Psychologists have often made the observation that the one thing they lack, when it comes to their profession as psychological healers, is the ability to pronounce absolution. Yet many Orthodox Christians, making a good confession and receiving absolution,

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