On Saturdays our goal will be to share with you from other wonderful Orthodox voices insights and helpful commentary to encourage your spiritual maturity.
This Saturday, please enjoy one of my favorite Orthodox writers, Fr. Stephen Freeman. Fr. Stephen is the parish priest at St. Anne’s Orthodox Church in Oak Ridge, TN and his blog…
Fr. Barnabas Powell
There is a radicalness to the Gospel of Jesus that simply confounds most in our world, even those of us who claim to follow the Man from Galilee.
The truth is this radical message is in stark contrast to much of the underlying philosophy and "epistemology" (an important word worth looking up and exploring!) of…
What do you think is the opposite of love? The easy answer is hate but that isn’t even close. Because hate takes attention and focus and (usually) preoccupation with the object of your hate.
And the truth is love takes the same. To love something or someone takes attention, focus, and even preoccupation with the…
Today's reflection is in honor of Sts Bartholomew and Barnabas, so today is my name day in our Faith.
The Name Day is as important (if not more important) than one's actual birthday, and it is celebrated as such in traditional Orthodox countries.
But today, I want to especially wish our Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness…
A dear priest friend of mine is on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and other holy sites in the area. Recently he and his fellow pilgrims came to the final resting place of Lazarus, the man the Lord raised from the dead. And that got me started thinking about Lazarus and his miraculous healing and…
I love action movies, but I confess, sometimes, my ability to suspend my disbelief and go along with some outlandish scene is pretty near impossible. Usually, the idea that something like this could really happen is just too remote even for my imagination.
Sometimes we Christians fall into the same trap about our lives. Yeah,…
'The intellect does many good and bad things without the body, whereas the body can do neither good nor evil without the intellect. This is because the law of freedom applies to what happens before we act.' St. Mark the Ascetic
I want to go with you!
My daughters love to go places with daddy. It doesn't really matter where I'm going; they just like to tag along. And that makes sense. After all, daddies buy candy!
There's something comforting about being with Another Who is stronger than you and seems to know where He is going. There…
Today, just a reminder that Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost. This threshold from one Church Season to another offers us a spiritual treasure house of insight and wisdom and instruction on how to take seriously and actually practice our faith in such a way that our life is changed!
For 50 days we have…
Recently I've been struggling alongside some dear friends, trying to get to the root of a systemic challenge in a community. In fact, this has become a full blown development of a strategic plan!
And I've made an important discovery that I'm sure won't surprise you, but it has been a concrete revelation to me:…