Reflections in Christ

“Strictly speaking, a system of ethics which does not make death its central problem has no value and is lacking in depth and earnestness”...

The Nicene Creed was created to exclude.  This goes against the grain of our modern secular society, where the word “inclusive” has…

We recently celebrated the Great Feast of Pentecost on June 19.  All of the subsequent Sundays of the liturgical year, until the pre-lenten…

When the great boxing champion Muhammad Ali died recently, events in his life were reviewed in the media. One of…

At the Vespers of Pentecost that will be celebrated in all of our parishes on Pentecost Sunday—which falls on June 19 this…

In the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed we profess, “Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was…

“So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city….” [John 4:28]. ...

As I continue to age, I find increasingly that a generation gap opens up unexpectedly at my feet.  The first time it happened was…

Orthodox Christians believe that the New Testament Church and the Christian faith itself appeared at a particular point in history…

I remember Elmer.  Elmer was an elephant, whose image adorned the backs of our notebooks when I was in elementary school, and…