Why has the Church called only Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, and Saint Symeon the New Theologian by the rare title Theologian? A patristic clarification of prayer, vision, and theology.
Final part of The Name of God series: the Third Commandment, taking the Name in vain, oaths, blasphemy, and guarding the Name through watchfulness.
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 to distinguish God's will from self-will, sentimentalism, fatalism, and the search for signs, according to Scripture and the Holy Fathers.
What Scripture, the Holy Fathers, the canons, and Orthodox iconography say about the beard, masculine image, and fidelity to Holy Tradition.
A continuation of the article on obedience: husband, wife, and children in the Christian order of the family, according to Scripture and the Holy Fathers.
How Father Ilie Lăcătușu's cult moved from the Petru Vodă milieu into The Orthodox Word at Platina before the Romanian Synod's canonization, and what questions this raises.
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.
What love means in Orthodoxy: from the Holy Trinity and the Cross to family, children, forgiveness, the prodigal son, and love for enemies.
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.