Start the live stream, turn the volume high, Put on your best Sunday tie, Turn off your brain, the thinking kind; Get ready to receive a mass-produced mind, And clasp the hand of the Medicine Man He's so factual, all the specialists are his fan! He'll take you to a tolerant place And with soft …
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A Sacrifice for Apostasy
“We must stand bravely.” Ss. Juventius and Maximinus. The essential truth and reality of Christian revelation are in no way dependent upon quantitativeness. The revelation of Christ Jesus, given once for all (cf. Jude 3), is itself the fullness of the Faith. It remains so, whether a vast multitude believes in it, or scantily few. …
The Cosmic Significance of Tsar Nicholas II
“Give ear, you that rule over the multitudes and boast of many nations. For your dominion was given you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High, Who will search out your works and inquire into your plans.” Wisdom 6:2-3. The Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II is, I would contend, one of the most significant …
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Orthodox Evangelism
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's (in Greek - euangelion: eu – “well, good” & angelio “to announce” ) will save it.” With these words, Christ the Lord equates the Gospel with Himself, that is the Gospel is an experience …
A Tree For My Soul
Blind in the tumult of my soul The passions, like a crowd, constrict my gaze; I have no stature, no height By which to obtain a lofty view. Christ is coming, the whisper comes, The multitude is pressing, I cannot see, Seek, O my soul, the tree Whereby you may behold the heavenly horizon. Fear …
A Millstone is Better
True Christianity is timeless and eternal because it has its source in the Eternal and Timeless God. The revelation of Christ Jesus does not come in and out of fashion. True, it may wane in popularity because it does not substantiate and justify every fleeting whim of humanity, most of all modernity. The issue is not …
Techno-Buddy Jesus
It is, at times, costly to be an Orthodox Christian. Christ the Lord calls His followers to humble repentance. The Faith instructs us to seek Christ Jesus, and Him alone. Don't expect to be a superstar. Don't even seek the gifts that He can give. Love only Him, desire only Him. All things pass, only …
The Worst Pollutant
“Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrows shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life” (Gen. 3:17). Sin, the rejection of God and the willing cooperation of mankind with evil, is a spiritual pollutant. Sin affects not only the spiritual but the physical world also. Ultimately sin is the cause …
A Sojourner and Exile
“There are two deaths, the one temporal and the other eternal; so also are there two lives, one of short duration and the other without end.” The Holy Martyr Plato. Vital to true Christianity is the remembrance of our, humanity's, transient mortality. Temporal life is given for but one reason: to secure eternal life. Eternal …
Eternal Life is Not For Free
The tendency of man is to seek comfort. Due to the fall and sin, this tendency has led to a lowering of mankind's eyes from his true goal: life in, and union by grace with, Christ. Many times instead of striving for the Kingdom of God we surround ourselves with earthly pleasures and worldly ease. …
The Inkless Pen 