How We Find God’s Will
How to distinguish God's will from self-will, sentimentalism, fatalism, and the search for signs, according to Scripture and the Holy Fathers.
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On the Wearing of the Beard among Orthodox Christians
What Scripture, the Holy Fathers, the canons, and Orthodox iconography say about the beard, masculine image, and fidelity to Holy Tradition.
Obedience in the Family
A continuation of the article on obedience: husband, wife, and children in the Christian order of the family, according to Scripture and the Holy Fathers.
From Petru Vodă Monastery to Platina: The Internationalization of Father Ilie Lăcătușu’s Cult Before His Canonization
How Father Ilie Lăcătușu's cult moved from the Petru Vodă milieu into The Orthodox Word at Platina before the Romanian Synod's canonization, and what questions this raises.
To Whom Should We Offer Obedience?
Confessor, spiritual father, and the layman's obedience in the Tradition of the Fathers: what obedience is, where its limits are, and why it is not blind submission.
Love: the Foundation, Measure, and Summit of the Christian Life
What love means in Orthodoxy: from the Holy Trinity and the Cross to family, children, forgiveness, the prodigal son, and love for enemies.
The Name of God (IV): The Jesus Prayer and Hesychasm
Part IV of the Name of God series: the Jesus Prayer, hesychasm, Saint Gregory Palamas, the Philokalia, and the calling of the Name in the heart.
The Case of Ilie Lăcătușu: Can Political Suffering Become Patristic Confession?
An Orthodox discernment study on the canonization of Ilie Lăcătușu, the patristic criteria, relics, political detention, and the category of Confessor.
The Name of God (III): How the Early Church Lived the Name of Jesus — Power, Liturgy, Martyrdom, and Prayer
Part III of The Name of God: how the early Church lived the Name of Jesus in Acts, Baptism, Eucharist, exorcism, martyrdom, and the desert of Egypt.
The Burning Bush of Antim Monastery: A Hesychast Flame in the Heart of the Twentieth Century
The history of the Burning Bush of Antim Monastery: Sandu Tudor, Father Ioan Kulâghin, the prayer of the heart, Communist imprisonment, and Romanian hesychast legacy.