Greetings in Christ! My last article was an open appeal to GOARCH to cease support for the persecutors of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In that appeal, I reported that three monks were attacked at Sviatohorsk Monastery in Ukraine. One monk was ruthlessly killed. Not only was he stabbed, but he was also shot through the …
Tag: War
TO THE BELLIGERENT RULERS OF THE NATIONS
How prophetic are the words of God's holy ones. Below is a letter from the righteous and holy Elder Philotheos Zervakos, written in 1940. The letter is so pertinent to our times that it could have been written today. In some sense, this is very sad. We moderns have proven that we have learned very …
Christianity and War
Here is the second part of a portion of St. Nikolai Velimirovich's work entitled, War and the Bible. As I noted in the preface to the first part, “I am already invested in the labor of directly translating the sermons of St. Seraphim (Zvezdenski), On the Divine Liturgy (in which translation I sit with the …
The Cause and Idol of War
A bit ago, my wife came upon an audio version, in Russian, of a work by St. Nikolia Velimirovich entitled, War and the Bible. As is her custom, she listens to various audiobooks while doing this or that around the house, many a time small crumbs of audio wisdom waft my way as I am …
The War on Peace
A small September, 2023, prologue: I originally penned this post in August of 2017. Sadly, I believe the observations that I made at that time about the mentality of violence and war have only grown more acute. Since then, I have also posted on my blog sections from St. Nikolai Velimirovich's book “The Bible and …
The Inkless Pen 