Three for the Price of One

Take a look at this icon. On the surface, it looks like a Theophany icon, but it’s so much more. How many other feasts can you see?

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Christ’s Cave of Wonders!

Back by popular demand (from December 2015)! Was Christ born in the western manger or the eastern cave? Click below to dip deeper into the birth of Jesus!

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Seeing God Face to Face

(A version of this article originally appeared in the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Saturday, July 30th, 2016. View that article here.) OVERWHELMED AT FIRST VISIT I remember the first time that I visited an Orthodox Church. I knew Orthodox Christianity predated the

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