“You have a place in which God wanted you to be born, and that nation, that country in which you were born, has a history. You have to come into Orthodoxy with the whole destiny of the American people because they have to find Christ Jesus, to be saved .. you come with the destiny …
Continue reading Mother Alaska: The Heartland of Orthodox Missions in America
Dear readers, thank you for your continued readership and support. I started my blog, the Inkless Pen, in June of 2017. It remained relatively small until 2020. Generally, I simply wrote about things that interested me. In 2020, when COVID happened, I had already been researching certain topics and agendas. These segued directly into the …
Ortho-dixe. Ortho-yankee, Orthod-doodle dandy. This past Sunday, at the time of writing this article, many Orthodox churches in N. America celebrated the feast of “All Saints of N. America.” The Sunday after All Saints is dedicated to the saints who labored in the local land. Not all jurisdictions in America celebrate all saints of N. …
“Each day has enough trouble of its own,” Matt. 6:34. We live in a world full of trouble. Another word that could be used is care: “the cares of this life.” Christians throughout all times have faced the cares of this life. The aim is not to let them choke out the harvest of the …
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,” Matthew 13:31. Creation is a book of teaching. One of many given by God. “It is clear that whoever reads the natural without knowing the spiritual content and significance of what he reads, reads death, …
Dear readers, below you will find a very beautiful word from Met. Luke of Zaporozhye. The original in Russian may be found here. On the Sunday of the Cross, may we truly remember that our Lord Jesus has overcome all the darkest inhumanities of mankind. The world seeks power through bloodshed, control, and tyranny. All …
By Met. Luke of Zaporozhye Translated from Russian, the original may be found here. Today, when we hear the words of the Apostle Paul to the Romans, we're not hearing simply a text from an ancient manuscript. We are hearing a bold, and almost deafening challenge thrown in the face of the entire created world, …
Continue reading An Incomprehensible Triumph: The Church in the Crucible of Trials
Routines. Day in and day out, small or large things. You tend to do them and take them for granted. Wake up. Wash-up; brush your teeth. Say prayers. Have some coffee, read a little. I like my routines. They bring an aspect of stability, at least seemingly, to everyday life. The unexpected. It throws a …
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