Month: May 2021

If you read church news or online blogs, it’s easy to get disillusioned: there’s so much bad news.  Combine this with a bad experience with Christians or a church and it’s no wonder that over 50% of Americans no longer

As I thought about the theme of one of the Easter Sundays, the Myrrhbearing Women, I wondered: what’s the deeper symbolic meaning that the first witnesses of the resurrection were female? Then, the answer came to me through the movie Shrek. 

This upcoming Sunday is the Sunday of Joseph the Arimathea and the Myrrh-Bearing Woman. Although the story of the women finding Jesus’s tomb empty is told by several of the evangelists, I want to narrow in on John’s telling of

There’s an old saying: knowledge is power.  Many of us live by this proverb. We go to college—or send our children to college—so that we can acquire the knowledge we need to get good jobs and live happy lives. While

In anticipation of Passover (Πάσχα) this Sunday, when we will celebrate the rising of the Anointed One from dead, here is the Passover homily read at every Orthodox Church around the world in the early hours of the morning. Blessed