Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

Once, when we were on the way to Orthodoxy, the leaders of our community were taking a retreat at a Benedictine monastery. One of the monks...

About twenty-five years ago, Bonnie and I had to move to a new area for work and thus had to begin in a new church.  A particular couple in ...

I suspect that going to hell, much like going to heaven, will be neither a new nor unfamiliar experience. From an Orthodox Christian perspe...

Last weekend, I was blessed to be the speaker at a high school retreat. I ran the meetings in a Socratic style so that I was continually in...

St. Theophan tells us that freedom is part of the divine nature that God has implanted in human beings and that freedom is the gift tha...

"The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor is it in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piec...

I'm reading George Eliot's Mill on the Floss , which is so full of profound ideas I can't begin to paraphrase them.  At midp...

A friend of mine met Helen LaKelly Hunt at a conference and was impressed with some of her ideas.  He asked me to read and comment on her ...

What do you talk about for six hours with a man in solitary confinement?Yesterday Bonnie and I visited Monk Anthony at the Super Maximum Sec...

At the monastery I visit, the brothers have a rule that includes one hour of saying the Jesus Prayer while doing nothing else.  Of course th...

King Uzziah of Judah is, I think, most famous for his death, or the year of his death.  The Prophet Isaiah in the year of King Uzziah’s deat...

Pippi posted a comment on my entry entitled Righteousness , and asked if "it is possible for one to slip out of the grace of God."...

This morning I read about King Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.  I feel sorry for Rehoboam.  He had a very tough act to follow.  Imagine being ...

I don’t normally read popular Protestant books. However, several of my Protestant friends have read and been disturbed/intrigued by Rob Bel...

Bonnie's drawings were used by Liturgica.com (a company that specializes in ancient and liturgical music) to make an animated Nativity g...

I have pasted a video of hermit monks in Romania. It ends with an interview with a hermit. Would to God that we all had his zeal for praye...

TeresaAngelina asked the following question: Is there a danger, do you think, of our looking for confirmation in those whom we know will ...

Quoted below is a long paragraph from Elder Sophrony's book, His Life is Mine .  Because it is a little difficult to understand, I want ...

Just as a mother sees a child reaching for a toy or a bottle and brings it into the child's reach, so God sees us striving for righteous...

St. Isaac the Syrian: "But lo, the majority of men do not attain to such innocency [purity of heart], yet we hope that for their good ...