Fr Antonios Kaldas -

Should an Orthodox Christian engage with social trends like Harry Potter?
What is the relationship between the Christian and the world? Should a Christian isolate herself from the world in order to find holiness and goodness? Or does a Christian have a responsibility to participate in the world around her?...

We are one within ourselves, with each other, with the world and with God.
What does it mean to be human? This question has occupied humanity since time immemorial, and of all the different answers we have come up with, I find none so true, so useful or so satisfying as that given by Orthodox Christianity. In Eastern Christianity...

Fr Thomas Hopko right where he always belonged: in front of a blackboard, beaming at eager and hungry minds.
One of my all time favourite people passed away yesterday. Fr Thomas Hopko was a priest of the Orthodox Church in America whose distinctions are too many to list here. What I liked most about him though, was listening to him speak and reading things...

St Mary of Egypt lived a life of extreme asceticism after she repented of her life of extreme dissolution.
In the last post, we spoke of the courage of the Christian, and how that can lead to various kinds of martyrdom. Few of us today will be called upon to display the courage of a martyr, although the world seems to be changing for the worse such that martyrdom...