Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

I have been on all sides of this.  I have advocated both a Christianizing strategy and an ignore it strategy.  The ignore it strategy is bas...

In my last post about the movie " Arranged ," I wondered out loud about how I as an Orthodox convert might be like the principal w...

Bonnie and I saw the movie "Arranged" last night. It is a semi-autobiographical story based on the experience of the film's p...

Every time I read in the Bible the word "ungodly," I have to tell my self, "That does not mean someone without God." ...

Fr. James Bernstein has done a great video series on Orthodox worship.  They are short, three minute videos (well edited).   This is a perfe...

Hello, this is Fr. Michael Gillis and I’m speaking of books… Today I will be talking about George MacDonald's children’s fantasy, “The P...

A friend of mine sent me a posting from a certain well known Orthodox leader in the U.S. The posting quoted Orthodox prayers that harken bac...

[an excerpt from an e-mail response to a graduate student in biblical studies] For the Orthodox Church, the West has generally been asking...

In St. John's Gospel we get the clear impression that Judas betrayed Jesus for the money.  The Gospel tells us that Judas was particular...

"Christ's final judgement...does not discriminate between those who need love and those who invite condemnation; it only adjudicate...

Today is St. Sophia day.  Her daughters, Faith, Hope and Love (aged 12,10 and 9) were martyred in her presence and she, laying on their grav...

"And when He [Jesus] had looked around at them in anger..." (Mark 3:5). Jesus certainly was angry; but what did He experience in...

Jamie Moran in an article in Raising Lazarus: Integral Healing in Orthodox Christianity, uses the metaphor of an evil lion caged inside us....

When Jesus performed a miracle, all of the people were amazed; but very few got it.  They didn't get that the miracle was a sign, a sign...

I've gotten started on the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin series. Book one, "Master and Commander," is also the title of t...

“The wrath of God came against them, and slew the stoutest of them, and struck down the choice men of Israel” (Psalm 78:31). “For the wrath...

"He that trusteth in the Lord shall not fear when God shall judge all with tormenting fire." (From the second Antiphoy of the Resu...

A guest staying with us for a few days mentioned that she had heard a nun (Roman Catholic, I believe) say that the asceticism of monasticism...

Lately my “fun” reading has been in Patrick O’ Brian’s Aubrey--Maturin series.  I read Master and Commander and couldn’t put it down.  The ...

What you think others think is probably a good indication of what you think.  Much of what we think, that is much of our attitude toward lif...