Each year one of my favourite Christmas songs is an old novelty song called Snoopy’s Christmas, released in 1967 by the Royal Guardsmen as a follow-up to their previous hit Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.  The song was inspired by actual events. During the First World War troops on either side of the front line[…]

Clergy and members of parishes that are beginning to decline will tend to notice something happening.  At first, what begins to happen is very subtle, hardly noticed.  It comes up during warm conversation, perhaps during coffee hour, and may even be, at the beginning of this period, something that is undertaken with joy and laughter[…]

Hello! My name is Noah. I am one of the parish members who attends liturgy and services at St. Tikhon Orthodox Church. I can help share our mission testimony. Prior to becoming Orthodox, or even knowing what Eastern Orthodoxy was, I found myself in a confusing state. I was raised in a very warm and[…]

If we expect our children and grandchildren to grow into adulthood as practicing Orthodox Christians, we must give daily witness to the importance of our faith. If we are lax in our fasting, church attendance, and piety, our children will see by our lack of seriousness, a compartmentalized religion that is ultimately of no value[…]

https://www.oca.org/reflections/misc-authors/the-silver-bullet-of-evangelism by Father John Parker In a single sentence, it could be said that evangelization is everyone’s business, since it is every baptized Christian’s vocation to bear witness to what he or she has seen and heard, to speak of all the good that God has done in his or her life, to share the[…]