Evangelist Billy Graham has Passed Away
Famed, longtime Evangelical Pastor Billy Graham has passed away. The 99 year old was surrounded by his family when he died in Montreat, NC. News of his passing has sparked much coverage, and as author Terry Mattingly writes, “diplomats, scholars and journalists will struggle to describe Graham’s impact via preaching,...
Self-Righteousness and Humility
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor of the School of Thelogy of the University of Thessaloniki Today’s Gospel reading (Luke 18, 10-14), presents two types of people who are typical of their kind, a Pharisee and a Publican (Tax-Collector), praying in the Temple. They represent the two opposite poles of society at...
The Mystery of Time (Mark 1, 1-8)
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis ‘The beginning of the Gospel of Christ’… The word ‘beginning’ in today’s Gospel reading is enough in itself to evoke the start of the new year, the threshold of which we reached a few daysago with the feast of Christmas. The Christian notion of time In...
The Truth of the Faith as a Struggle for Life
Archimandrite Ieronymos Nikolopoulos People today, who are indifferent towards so many things, are also indifferent to matters of the faith. Naturally, some sociologists and anthropologists are not slow to interpret this phenomenon as ‘the end of faith’. And there are historians who analyze it as ‘a turn towards modernity’...
Two extremely tragic cases
Georgios Patronos In the Gospel reading for the 7th Sunday of Matthew (9, 27-35) we have two events. The first is the cure of two blind men and thereafter that of the man who was both mute and possessed. Both cases are extremely tragic, as Saint Matthew presents them, not...
Growing the Body of Christ
Today’s show is a full one with three wonderful interviews. Listen Now. Our first interview is with author, designer and photographer Panos Fiorentinos. Listen in as Father Chris and Panos discuss his book, Ecclesia in which he visited 6 states and 59 parishes. They discuss what he learned not only...
Modern Trials to Our Ancient Faith : When Cynicism is ‘Sin-a-cism’
Cynicism was once a school of ancient Greek philosophy that promoted virtue and living in simple agreement with nature. Like many words that once held a different meaning, cynicism today means skepticism, jaded negativity, and a general distrust of the integrity and motive of others. Sin means to “fall short”...
The Twelve Gospels
Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou I am probably in serious trouble for saying that, so allow me to quickly move on before I really put my foot in it. Let us now turn our attention to the service of Great Friday that takes place on Thursday evening. At this service, we...
The Canaanite woman and the Mother of God
Archbishop Christodoulos (Paraskevaïdis) of Athens (1998-2008, †) Today’s Gospel is about a Canaanite woman. You heard how she called out to the Lord, followed Him, and was ignored by Him. His disciples were at a loss to understand why He didn’t either help her or tell her to go...
Translation Problems
Translation Problems From the beginning the Orthodox Church has been called to communicate the Gospel to the world around it. Two thousand years later we still have a “Translation Problem”, we still struggle to communicate. How can we make our Faith intelligible to the world today? ABOUT THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN NETWORK The Orthodox Christian...
