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A journey into the ancient Christian faith—through history, story, and real conversations.

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"You Worship Mary!" The Objection Every Orthodox Christian Hears

There are some things you come to expect in life, things that occur with such regularity you can practically set your alarm by them:

The Christianity Nobody Talks About Anymore: The Priest Who Refused to Stay Home After Surgery

Last Wednesday night our priest confessor had a defibrillator installed for his heart.

“That’s Not Biblical!” — Except, What About Your Church?

A Protestant-to-Orthodox Reflection on Scripture, Tradition, and the Ancient Faith We Sometimes Forget We Inherited

To be a Christian is to know a Person, not a Book

Sitting at coffee shops as often as I do, there are a lot of different kinds of people that one is exposed to:

Young People Have Found Something to Rebel Against; Modernity

The Kids Are Rebelling Again. This Time, They’re Becoming Orthodox.

Are We Witnessing the Collapse of Evangelicalism in Real Time?

Why Christians Raised on Modern Church Culture Are Rediscovering Ancient Orthodox Christianity

The Apocrypha Problem: What If We Don’t Know Who Wrote the Protestant Old Testament Either?

One of the interesting phenomena I’ve been able to witness up close and personal over the last few years is the number of visitors to our parish who, though raised Christian of some sort, were stirred to visit an Orthodox Church because they had begun reading 2nd Temple apocryphal books they had never read up till that point in their life.

'The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind' and the Recent Surge in Orthodox Christianity & Roman Catholicism

Why are young and old continuing to inquire into Ancient Christianity?

What an Orthodox Priest Taught Me About Being Wrong

Why the holiest people I know are often the quickest to admit they are sinners

We Have Never Had More Community. So Why Are We So Lonely? - Orthodox Christian Reflections

Why Orthodox Churches Don’t Try to Cure Loneliness With Small Talk