Scriptures: The Written Word of God
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Theology

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Scriptures: The Written Word of God

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Christians began to claim to have the correct understanding of the Jewish Scriptures – the Scriptures were written about the Christ, and properly interpreted in Christ.

Accountability important to any church
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Orthodoxy Today

Accountability important to any church

Fr. Barnabas Powell

A few years ago, a woman asked, “Can you explain what would happen if you were accused of sexual misconduct — how someone would submit an allegation, and how it would be dealt with?” Good thing I wasn’t sipping my tea at the moment, or it might’ve come out my nose.

Who Killed Christ?
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Who Killed Christ?

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

In three words this general answer can even be summed up as a ‘lack of love’, for this is the greatest killer of all, for it kills individuals, parish churches, monasteries and indeed, as we are witnesses, whole dioceses.

Saint Triduana of Scotland
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Saint Triduana of Scotland

Commemorated: October 8/21

Dmitry Lapa

St. Triduana (also Triduna, Tradwell), one of the most venerated female saints of Scotland, lived between the fourth and the eighth centuries.

The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses
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Theology

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The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses

Conversation 2, Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Where in the Bible do they talk about aerial tollhouses—those obstacles that the forces of darkness put in the way of souls rising after death to heaven through the space under heaven? Why do the demons wait for a soul in the under-heavens? How should we view the fact that there are differences between patristic works and the lives of the saints in explanations of the tollhouses? How can we answer critics of the teaching on the tollhouses?