The Way

Do you remember being a teenager? Do you remember ignoring your parents when you were a teen? You were probably thinking, “Ugh, why do I have to listen to my parents? They don’t know anything. Besid...

25 Jun 202115min

We all know that the Christian feast of Pentecost is the celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles. This story is told in the New Testament book of Acts.

 But, did you know that the...

18 Jun 202123min

Have you ever said something that you wish you could take back? I bet the moment you said it—right away—you knew you shouldn’t have. You could see the shock, hurt, and pain of your words on faces of ...

11 Jun 202113min

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 ...

28 Mai 202111min

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 an...

21 Mai 202114min

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 narro...

14 Mai 202120min

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 hap...

7 Mai 202119min

In anticipation of Passover 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 ...

30 Apr 20215min