The icon of St. Christopher is one of the most astounding images found in the Orthodox tradition. Showing a dog-headed warrior saint, it conjures fantastical stories of werewolves or of monstrous races from Pliny’s edge of the world. …

One of the problems I run into when talking to people about symbolism is the whole literal versus metaphorical idea. …

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. This may come as a surprise to many that St. Patrick was and is an Orthodox Saint centuries before Rome split from the Holy Apostolic Church. The rule of thumb for Orthodox Christians is that a Latin Christian who lived after the Great Schism of…

Part 1 Why study the signs of the times? First of all, we have to know what it is meant by the phrase “signs of the times.” This expression comes straight from the Gospel, from the words of our Savior in Matthew 16:3. Christ tells the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Him, “Ye can discern the face of…

Today “Worship” itself has become a vague concept, generally associated with prayer/praise and hymn-singing. As such it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish what many contemporary Christians describe as “worship” from the treatment of various Rock, Sport and Entertainment stars (or patriotism and ideological fetishes). …

One of the problems I run into when talking to people about symbolism is the whole literal versus metaphorical idea. …

There area lot of people nowadays who don’t believe in organized religion, and simultaneously they also think that organized religion is a really bad thing. These people will often say something like: I don’t need religion, who needs religion, who needs organized religion? I don’t need all that. …

In the fifth chapter of The Gospel According to Saint John, we read of Jesus healing the paralyzed man who lay by the pool. Later when Jesus encounters the man, Jesus says to him: “Go and sin no more, lest something worse befall you” Jesus isn’t warning him that if…

Mary and the True Power of the Feminine — It’s possible you’ve heard of Christ referred to as “The Last Adam”. Paul uses this in at least two areas, and Irenaeus helps flesh this out when he writes of the recapitulation of Christ in his work, On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis. “Wherefore also He passed…