by Abbot Tryphon – The quest for righteousness is not a part time job. Teachers and parents routinely remind children of the importance of refraining from giving in to peer pressure, knowing that good behavior can often be undermined by the desire to fit in with their friends and schoolmates. We adults need to remember … Read more
by Jackie Morfesis – The darkness revels at Christians afraid to shine their light. In fact, a fearful Christian is the devil’s playground. I was blessed to have a mother, Lucia, memory eternal, who had the boldness to speak scriptural truth to me. She knew exactly what to say that would plant a seed in … Read more
by JD Rucker – America is under attack. The LGBTQIA+ supremacy agenda is designed to take us down, not just by corrupting kids with horrible ideas but more importantly to separate them from God. We are all engaged in a battle between good and evil whether we know it or not, or even if we … Read more
by Metropolitan Silouan (Muci) – The believer never stops drawing near the Resurrection until the Resurrection itself snatches him from the way he is approaching it. Furthermore, it drives him towards its true approach to man, whoever he may be, under the light of the dispensation that Christ inaugurated amidst our sinfulness which is still … Read more
by Fr. Zechariah Lynch – The tribulations of our days will become more intense. The temptations to compromise will become more pronounced. “Be of good courage and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; for the Lord will do what is good in His sight” (2 Kingdom/Samuel 10:12). … Read more
by Fr. John Whiteford – You will not find a single Church Father or Saint of the Church that calls abortion anything less than murder. In recent years, there are lines of division that not only show the signs of an emerging schism in the Orthodox Church — it is becoming increasingly clear that we … Read more
by Rod Dreher – This stuff is absolutely intolerable. I remind you: they are talking about seizing children from families to put them through sex reassignment. Yeah, yeah, squall about it all you want, but that’s exactly what the Democratic Party is, if you take seriously the Biden Administration’s newly released guidelines on health care … Read more
by Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk) – Christians are coming to the conclusion that the times are not merely troubling, but apocalyptic. There is no question that we live in troubling times. The 20th century witnessed an unparalleled persecution of Christianity across the entire world – primarily through revolutionary violence in the East, but primarily through worldly … Read more
by Glenn Ellmers – The entire Woke agenda is an attack on civilization and a return to barbarism, violence, and anarchy. It’s the return of tyranny. Our political situation is so chaotic and strange right now that we can’t take anything for granted—including what is normal. So it’s often necessary to explain what may seem … Read more
by Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk) – The Catastrophe of Modern Education I have already written on multiple occasions of the urgent necessity of creating Orthodox parish schools in America. Our nation’s public schools have degenerated into prison-like institutions which have outlawed all mention of Truth (the Second Person of the Trinity), which forbid any public prayer to … Read more