Don’t Turn Back
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos ‘You’ve ascended the ladder of renunciation; don’t turn back’ (Saint John of the Ladder). How many times, in the course of marriage or family life, are we troubled by the thought that perhaps we married the wrong person. Our mind goes to other loves and we...
We are Never Alone. You Are Part of the Christian family
Have you ever been somewhere when you didn’t know anybody there? Maybe on the first day of school, or even at a party or another activity, you looked around the room and didn’t know anybody! Sometimes we can feel so alone, even when we are with others! In the epistle...
Creating a Christian Environment in the Home
Abbot Tryphon Creating a Christian home begins with the icon corner. The bright corner becomes the center for every domestic church, where the family devotions take place. This is also the family’s way of declaring to visitors that this is a Christian home, where Christ is head. Because the...
Let Light Shine for the Little Parishioners
Have you ever visited a cave, or have you gone for a walk in a very dark place? Maybe it was so dark that you couldn’t see anything or anybody around you. What did you do? Did you turn on a flashlight and look around? When you turn on a...
‘For I have come to set a man against his father’. Does Christianity damage the institution of the family?
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis It has been claimed by some that Christianity is not merely no help to the family, but that it actually contributes to its breakdown. In other words, it has damaged the prestige of paternal authority within the context of the small family. This reasoning has been...
Start the Conversation: It Takes a Village…the Importance of Church and Family
Watch Now. Start the Conversation: It Takes a Village…the Importance of Church and Family is the fifth in a series of six videos created by the Family Life Ministry of Atlanta with a generous grant from Leadership 100. These parenting videos brought a diverse group of parents together to discuss raising children in...
“Secure attachments and forming a healthy christian family” Dr. George Stavros Ph. D.
“We are made to love and be loved” says Dr. Stavros as he unravels attachment theory and its relationship to Orthodox Christian theology. Dr. George Stavros is Executive Director of the Danielsen Institute and Associate Clinical Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Boston University. His research interests are in psychotherapy and spirituality, psychotherapy...
Educating our Children in The Image of God after The Likeness of Christ
How can faith come alive? Thousands can be saved around us, but how? Father Anthony’s witty and thought provoking talk affirms that the way to salvation is through the Church. So how do we as parents nurture our children to grow in faith? Father Anthony sheds light on how we can...
Marriage, Infertility and OCAMPR
This week on CRTL, we have three guests. We open the program with a conversation between our guest host Fr. Steven Ritter and Rev. Dr. Christopher Flesoras, the pastor of Saint Anna Greek Orthodox Church in Roseville, CA. They discuss the life and miracles of St. Anna. For more information...
Families and Crisis
We welcome back Dr. David Ford, Professor of Church History at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. This week he shares the story of Saints Vincent and Waltrude of Soignoies, from the 7th century. Listen as they discuss the making of a holy family. And keep listening to hear a conversation...
