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By Joshua Moritz, Ph.D., St. John Chrysostom Academy Note: This article is part of a two-article Paideia Forum, designed to present differing perspectives on issues of note in Orthodox Christianity around the world. These pairings are not meant to equate the differing views or to question any aspects of Orthodox Tradition and Dogmatics. For the Read More …
By Jesse Dominick, M.Div., editor at OrthoChristian.com Note: This article is part of a two-article Paideia Forum, designed to present differing perspectives on issues of note in Orthodox Christianity around the world. These pairings are not meant to equate the differing views or to question any aspects of Orthodox Tradition and Dogmatics. For the other Read More …
Protodeacon Brian Patrick Mitchell, Ph.D. The recent push for making deaconesses has moved several scholars and priests to offer counter-arguments against deaconesses. Unfortunately, many of these counter-arguments have been seriously lacking, even to the point of contributing to the problem. There are two ways to argue against deaconesses. One way is to argue on the Read More …
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 …
There is an excellent fairly recent study (2021) of the career and works of Konstantin Pobedonostsev that deserves attention from those interested in populist Christian conservatism, in Russian cultural history, and in Russian Orthodox Christianity. Read More …
The reason for the question mark in the title is simple. I’m not sure that there can be an Orthodox Christian film review of the new version of Nosferatu. I don’t think it’s a good movie for Orthodox Christians to see, especially given the gratuitous sexual scenes and innuendo throughout. It’s definitely not good to see during the Nativity Fast, I confess. My older son, now a senior in college, newly returned from study in Ireland and on break at home, had wanted to see it at some point. I figured that it would be better to go with him and discuss it with him afterward, rather than him seeing it later alone or with friends. I also was curious, as an English professor in my secular job, focusing on Christian literature and film, as to what “signs of the times” might be discerned in the film. 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 …