Love Between Spouses — The Foundation of Free Obedience
Love between spouses as the foundation of free obedience in the Christian family: sacrificial love, honor, patience, prayer, and life in Christ.
Category True Orthodoxy
Essays on patristic discernment, living Tradition, spiritual authority, and the difference between Orthodox confession, ideology, and religious mythology.
Patristic Discernment
True Orthodoxy
Essays on patristic criteria, living Tradition, and the discernment between confession, ideology, and religious mythology.
Core Article
What Does “True Orthodoxy” Mean?
Four patristic criteria for judging tradition, authority, and spiritual fruit soberly.
The Lord’s Army — What Is It Today?
What is the Lord's Army today? An Orthodox analysis of Iosif Trifa, Traian Dorz, the Cornilescu Bible, Father Cleopa and Protestant pietism.
The Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council and the Creed
Between Ascension and Pentecost: the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, the Creed, John 17, and the confession of Christ as true God.
Why Should I Fast? The Two Pillars of the Christian Life
Why fasting and presence at the Divine Liturgy are the two visible pillars of Christian life and the objective sign of obedience to the Church.
Frequent or Rare? The Witness of the Holy Fathers Concerning Holy Communion
How often should Orthodox Christians receive Holy Communion? A patristic synthesis on preparation, confession, fasting, discernment, and the living Orthodox practice.
Entering the Mystery of the Holy Trinity
A patristic introduction to the Mystery of the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit confessed by Saint John, the Cappadocians, Saint Symeon, and Saint Gregory Palamas.
The Ascension of the Lord: Why Christ Departs and Yet Remains With Us
A patristic reading of the Ascension: Luke 24, Acts 1, Ephesians 4, human nature in glory, Pentecost, and Christian hope.
Two Hearths, One Prayer: Sihăstria Putnei and Neamț Monastery in the Hesychast Century of Moldavia
Sihăstria Putnei and Neamț Monastery: two hesychast hearths of eighteenth-century Moldavia, from the Putna Saints to Saint Paisius Velichkovsky.
The Creation of the World in the Theology of Saint Basil the Great. The Homilies on the Hexaemeron
Saint Basil the Great and the Homilies on the Hexaemeron: creation out of nothing, light, firmament, stars, providence, and man as priest of the cosmos.
How the Platina Monastery Passed from ROCOR to the Serbian Patriarchate
How did St. Herman of Alaska Monastery at Platina, founded under ROCOR with St. John Maximovitch, end up under the Serbian Patriarchate? Documented account.