Dostoevsky and Orthodoxy
Dostoevsky and Orthodoxy: Siberia, Optina Monastery, St Paisius Velichkovsky, Anna Grigorievna, and the great novels as literary witness to Christ.
Category How to Be Saved
Articles on the Orthodox path of salvation and spiritual practice
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to Read the Philokalia: The Path of Gradual Initiation the Tradition Recommends
The scene has repeated itself for decades. An Orthodox Christian, searching for spiritual depth, hears about the Philokalia. He buys it — in English, the Palmer-Sherrard-Ware edition in five volumes; in Romanian, the Stăniloae edition in twelve volumes; in Russian,…