Month: February 2020

If someone were to ask you what the most important service in the Orthodox Chruch is, what would you say?  Would you mention Pascha? Or, perhaps, one of the Holy Week services? Maybe, you’d say the most important service is

Judgment Sunday  In one of our culture’s most beloved stories, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, we encounter a few people with some character deficiencies. One of them is a boy named Augustus Gloop, whose major flaw is

Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee In America, we have a saying, “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” This saying encompasses our attitude that one will get ahead in life through education and a good hard day’s work. In fact,

Perhaps the biggest problem concerning religion in today’s society is that it’s been regulated to a simple set of beliefs—creeds, theology, and dogma—which are often very abstract. This, in turn, has allowed people to create litmus tests around what people