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.
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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.
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.
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.