St. Photius: On the Essence of Icons
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Theology

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St. Photius: On the Essence of Icons

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Living in the literary culture of the 21st Century, and being shaped by the literary tradition of recent centuries, it is hard to imagine that at one time Christians, like Photius, thought the pictured icon to be “truer” than the written text – a more certain witness to the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

On Irina Ratushinskaya’s “Atypical Dissidence”, Faith, and Love for Her Country
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Church History

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On Irina Ratushinskaya’s “Atypical Dissidence”, Faith, and Love for Her Country

Igor Gerashchenko

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (born March 4, 1954), a poet, a former dissident and an Orthodox Christian, reposed in the Lord on July 5, 2017. Pravoslavie.ru talked with Irina’s husband Igor Gerashchenko, also a former dissident and a member of the Artists Trade Union of Russia.

On Russia’s Holy Road
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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On Russia’s Holy Road

Alexander Groves

“Wonderful news,” Arkady the student said to me, “you have a blessing to carry one of the banners—put this on,” as he handed me a sticharion at 3 AM the next morning. So there I was, a strange Englishman walking at the front of the procession, carrying a banner of the Saviour through Holy Russia.

A Christian Understanding of Homosexuality, Part 4: An All-Embracing Mythology
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Orthodoxy Today

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A Christian Understanding of Homosexuality, Part 4: An All-Embracing Mythology

One of the most tragic aspects of this new social orthodoxy is that rather than guiding those who struggle with this passion to counseling and support, they are now subject to relentless propaganda that rejects any consideration of seeking help, and urges them to whole-heartedly embrace a self-destructive path.

Why we should not fear the end of the world, or What in actual fact brings us closer to destruction
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Why we should not fear the end of the world, or What in actual fact brings us closer to destruction

Priest Roman Savchuk

And so we see the patristic understanding of the prophecy of our Savior on the ultimate fate of the world is essentially opposed to that myth about the Apocalypse which is actively propagandized in the mass consciousness.