Here's an interview I just did with Fr. Nick and Dr. Roxanne Louh about their new book "Renewing You: A Priest, a Psychologist, and a Plan." This is a book you'll want to read and also give as gifts to others. Take a bit and watch this and then go to https://store.ancientfaith.com/renewing-you/ and get this…
Fr. Barnabas Powell
My dear friend Hank Hanegraaff has a book out called "Truth Matters; Life Matters More" and in it Hank goes through the journey of revelation about his move into the Orthodox Church BECAUSE of his discovery that the continuity of Faith was about more than religious ideas or philosophy but a living communion between real…
The girl needed a transfusion and the only suitable donor was her brother, and he was just 11 years old! So, the family talked it over and said it had to be up to the brother to do this. The doctor approached the boy and asked if he'd give his blood to save his sister's…
As someone who has spent most of my adult life either as a police officer or in the nonprofit world, I can tell you, generosity is both addictive and life-giving. It really is. Studies have shown that there are real psychological changes in someone’s behavior and mood when they are generous. And it seems we…
How do we tame the chaos in our lives? Let's face it, it seems the chaos is increasing in our day and age, and more and more it seems people are actually encouraging chaos and the fanning of the flames of our passions. But this level of chaos isn't sustainable, and eventually something's got to…
My Pentecostal background shaped me to expect that God wouldn't ask me to BE like Jesus Christ and then not give me the power to actually DO that! But being cut off from the continuity of the wisdom of the Church meant we had to make it up as we went along, usually with tragic…
Everybody knows that whoever possesses the Spear of Destiny, has ultimate power! Their armies can never be defeated and power will be theirs forever, as long as they have the Spear! You know the Spear I’m talking about, don’t you? This is the Spear that pierced the Lord’s side at His crucifixion! Great Hollywood script material!
Of course,…
Edgar Allen Poe writes the psychologically terrifying "Tell Tale Heart" and we watch as the guilt from a murder drives the murderer crazy thinking he hears the heartbeat of his victim. This guilt is destructive to the man in the story and we can readily understand the horror of such a story because we. too…
The headlines read like a series of horror stories to many. Mass shootings and infectious diseases break out and we wonder about our own health and safety. Conflict rages in the Middle East and radical Islamic groups are ethnically cleansing the Christians and other minority groups, even killing children because "they may grow up and…