Seraphim Rose Canonized by ROCOR: What Happened in Munich and What Remains Unclear
Seraphim Rose canonized by ROCOR? The Munich decision opened preparations for glorification, but did not yet complete the act.
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How Can We Be Happy? Where Should We Seek Happiness?
How does Christ answer the question of happiness? This article sets the world's programme beside the nine Beatitudes, asking why contemporary Christians can hear the Gospel every week without letting it change the direction of life.
The Jesus Prayer on the Bus
Why the exhortation to “say the Jesus Prayer anywhere” is not the same as the prayer of the heart: Poiana Mărului, the Burning Bush, and the loss of living transmission.
The Name of God (II): The Incarnation as the Revelation of the Name
How does YHWH's hidden Name become speakable and saving in Jesus? An Orthodox study of Incarnation, Kyrios, Cross, Resurrection, and the Jesus Prayer.
The Name of God (I): YHWH in the Old Testament
Why was YHWH, the Name revealed to Moses, no longer spoken? An Orthodox study of the Tetragrammaton, the Psalter, and the path to the Jesus Prayer.
Elder Ephraim of Arizona — The American Period
Elder Ephraim of Arizona: his sanctity, the apparatus built around him, ROCOR, Passias, money, victims, and Orthodox discernment.
Father Seraphim Rose: Repentance, Hagiography, and Discernment
A careful Orthodox reading of Father Seraphim Rose, his biographies, Platina, hagiography, repentance, and discernment.
Rue Daru, Russian Paris and ROCOR: the story of an almost 90-year rupture
The history of the rupture between the Russian Archdiocese of Paris (Rue Daru) and ROCOR: from the Russian exile after 1917 to the reunifications of 2007 and 2019.
What Does “True Orthodoxy” Mean? Four Patristic Criteria for Discernment
What does true Orthodoxy mean? Four patristic criteria for discernment: apostolic continuity, catholicity, holiness, and Eucharistic communion.
Cleopa, the Last Saint of Romania
Saint Cleopa Ilie, glorified in 2025, as a patristically verifiable Romanian Orthodox elder: life, teaching, humility, gifts, and fruits.