Is It Enough to Be a Practicing Christian?
The valid grace of the Mystery is not the same as the growth of the soul: on the spirit that forms us, Tradition, and discernment in troubled times.
Category How to Be Saved
Articles on the Orthodox path of salvation and spiritual practice
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev — A Book You Can Always Read
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev, author of the letters «Repentance Is Left to Us», is one of the great Russian spiritual fathers of the twentieth century, a teacher of repentance and humility.
Martha and Mary: Work and Stillness
The feast of Saints Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus (June 4): their lives, who Saint Lazarus is, the patristic reading of the two sisters, and their liturgical veneration.
The Holy Martyrs of Niculitel: Confessing Christ and the Veneration of Holy Relics
The Holy Martyrs of Niculitel teach us how to confess Christ, why the Church venerates holy relics, and the courage to remain faithful in the world.
Why Does Man Not Change? Lot’s Wife and the Mystery of the Soul’s Hardening
Why does man not change, even when he sees the truth? Lot’s wife, the hardening of the heart, wounded will, grace, suffering, and repentance.
Dostoevsky and Orthodoxy
Dostoevsky and Orthodoxy: Siberia, Optina Monastery, St Paisius Velichkovsky, Anna Grigorievna, and the great novels as literary witness to Christ.
Will I Be Bored in Heaven?
Will I be bored in heaven? A patristic answer on paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven, the uncreated light, epektasis, the Liturgy, and eternal joy.
Why We Must Read the Holy Fathers. Books, Not Podcasts
Why reading the Holy Fathers forms Orthodox discernment and cannot be replaced by podcasts, Telegram posts, or sentimental religious books.
Forgetfulness of God
Forgetfulness of God is not a simple lapse of memory, but a spiritual state in which the soul lives as though God were not.
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.