April 30, 2026, I read a lot of fantasy novels when I was a teenager. You can probably tell. Most of them passed me by – in the vast wake of Tolkein, genuinely original fantasy is a hard sea to navigate – but a few stood out. Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea books have never[…]
April 15, 2026, the community of Holy Royal Martyrs Orthodox Christian Church was originally founded as St. Genevieve of Paris Western Rite Mission (ROCOR) by Priest Germaine Hoernschemeyer and his wife, Presbytera Abigail in O’Fallon, MO in 2018. After years of opening their home on a weekly basis for services, in the spring of 2024,[…]
March 25, 2026 My Lord, Perhaps one of the most difficult things in Your Gospel is that You allowed the wheat to grow together with the tares until the final judgment. In doing so, You taught us that Your Church on earth is not a gathering of saints as much as it is a[…]
April 16, 2025, on March 17, 2015, Ben Witherington III, professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, during an interview with CNN made the following statement: “The New Testament says nothing about Mary being a perpetual virgin, it says she virginally conceived Jesus, and it certainly implies that she went[…]
Commonwealth: Is it common for priests to have personal financial difficulties? What do you wish more Orthodox Christians understood about the burdens priests carry? Dn. Chris: It is more common than we think, especially in particular jurisdictions. Some of the time people know but choose to allow these financial difficulties to exist. There[…]
March 23, 2025, when I first read the passage in Luke where Jesus seems to turn away His own mother, I remember feeling very uneasy. I remember asking myself, what does it mean when the Lord says, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.” It[…]
