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By Drs. Mary and David Ford, St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary This is a brief summary of why having female deacons is contrary to the teachings and practices of the Orthodox Church. 1. It has always been the teaching of the Orthodox Church that both sexes share equally in our common human nature. Women, Read More …
By Reader Nicholas Chapman (Above) Young Philip Ludwell III Philip Ludwell III is the first known convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the Americas. He was a prominent figure in pre-revolutionary Virginia and a relative by blood or marriage of many great early figures in American history from George Washington to Richard Henry Lee of Read More …
By Archbishop Averky (Taushev) From the second chapter of St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Thessalonians it is clear that the teaching about the Antichrist enters into the content of the earliest apostolic evangelization. After giving a description of the Antichrist in the third and fourth verses of that chapter, the holy Apostle writes further Read More …
The inner work of the spiritual life is the real substance of being an Orthodox Christian. Salvation, eternal life, is about coming to know God. We can live a purely external religious life, go to church, read the prayers, fast a little, partake of the sacraments and be nice to people; this is good and may bring us to heaven. But there is far more. If we remain on the level of simply formal religion, and it does not transform our mind and our heart and does not lead us to a conscious communion with God and the saints, we are missing the full potential of Christianity. We can know all about God, but not know Him. This misses the mark! Read More …
This is based on a transcript of a talk by the award-winning novelist and Orthodox Christian Paul Kingsnorth, made at Bucknell University in Fall 2024. It addresses the relationship between Christianity and nature, and the title specifically invokes an obscured phrase in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The late Orthodox Christian bioethicist Herman Tristram Engelhardt glossed a statement by St. Basil the Great to suggest that natural law in Orthodox Christianity is the spark of God’s love in the human heart. Kingsnorth’s talk was generously funded by the Open Discourse Coalition and co-sponsored by the Bucknell
Humanities Center’s Environmental Humanities Group and the Bucknell Orthodox Christian Fellowship. Read More …