How to Really Enjoy Helping Others
Have you ever done something nice for somebody…but you didn’t want to do it? Maybe you shared a treat with a brother or sister, or played with somebody you didn’t want to play with, or helped somebody you didn’t want to help. But then, did you complain about it? When...
Join the conversation with Bible Answer Man
Hank Unplugged: A podcast from the Christian Research Institute. For decades, millions have enjoyed answers and insights from Hank Hanegraaff on the Bible Answer Man broadcast. Now, Hank invites some of his closest friends and brightest minds onto the Hank Unplugged podcast for free-flowing, truly engaging discussions. Listen, as you...
The Meaning of Christian Asceticism (1)
Metropolitan Symeon of Nea Smyrni As Christians, we’re always striving. The Christian life is a continual, ceaseless struggle. But the period of Great Lent, as a time of preparation for the celebration of Easter, the greatest feast, requires a more intense effort, more fervent zeal and a more methodical...
Whole or Half Christians?
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor of the School of Thelogy of the University of Thessaloniki The case of the prominent Jew who had observed all the commandments of Mosaic Law from the time of his youth is one we can easily relate to. He asks Jesus what remains for him to...
The project of synergic anthropology: spiritual practice as the basics for a new conception of man (part 3)
Sergey Horujy, Academician 3. The anthropological unlocking as the universal paradigm of man’s constitution Our analysis of hesychast experience demonstrates its epistemological transparency. Now we come to the test of its anthropological full-bloodedness: is it possible to extend or generalize the principles found in hesychast anthropology to other domains...
The project of synergic anthropology: spiritual practice as the basics for a new conception of man (part 2)
Sergey Horujy, Academician 2. Hesychasm in the prism of anthropological reflection Synergic anthropology starts with the complete reconstruction of hesychast anthropology. Let us point out its principal elements and stages. Hesychasm is ascetical and mystical practice of Eastern-Christian (Orthodox) Christianity which begins to form itself up together with the...
The project of synergic anthropology: spiritual practice as the basics for a new conception of man (part 1)
Sergey Horujy, Academician 1. “The tiny rescued bit” What stands high on the agenda of modern philosophizing is radical anthropological reflection. The “overcoming of metaphysics” has been virtually completed in the last millennium, and together with classical metaphysics classical anthropology has gone that established the European conception of man...
Skin in the Game
Join us in Led by the Spirit as Fr. Marcantoni discusses one of the most difficult things to explain about the Christian worldview, why human beings should be thought of as the Imago Dei, the “image and likeness of God.” ABOUT FATHER MICHAEL MARCANTONI Fr. Michael Marcantoni is the priest at...
Sunday of Pentecost
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes After fifty days from our Lord’s glorious Resurrection our Holy Orthodox Church celebrates Pentecost. This feast day is very important for all mankind and Christians, because it is the birthday of our Church. It is the day on which the Church, the Body of Christ,...
Crisis in the Middle East: Interview with Samuel Tadros
Interview with Samuel Tadros, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute Live from Washington DC at the 3rd Annual Archon International Conference on Religious Freedom #EndPersecutionOfChristians. Samuel Tadros sits down with Elenie Alexiou and speaks about the Christian Persecution crisis in the Middle East. The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate are...
