Through the creative vehicle of a fictional parish, Frederica Mathewes-Greene opens a door into Eastern Christianity. Who are the Orthodox ... keep saying my prayers, and keep reading the bible.” ...

The service of the Small Paraklesis, conducted in alternation with the Great Paraklesis during the Dormition fast (August 1-14) as well as on many other occasions, is chanted in times of distress and ...

This latest work includes a unique agreed statement on the “filioque,” addressing a longstanding theological divergence between Eastern and Western traditions. Metropolitan Kyrillos of Krini, Orthodox ...

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and unbroken line from the first days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the ...

2. The Communion of Saints: Eastern Orthodox Christians believe that those who have died in Christ are alive today in heaven and that we can communicate with them through prayer. They don't see this ...

Throughout and overall, there is a high degree of ritual, and religious observance permeates almost every corner of ... religious study and prayer three times daily. The Orthodox ideal is to ...

But, taking the Jewish Linguistic and Culinary Walking Tour of Pico-Robertson Sunday morning, I quickly discovered that ...

The community has sought to recover something of the unity of Christianity and as such has looked at both Eastern ... Prayer': 'Lord Jesus Christ, take pity on me a sinner'. An aspect of Orthodox ...

When our fearless, cancellation-defying leader Rich Lowry launched our webathon last week (donate here), we didn’t know what to expect. We have long relied on our readers not just to take in ...

It can be, of course. But prayer can also be a way of communicating with ourselves, a tool of self-inquiry. It can be entirely our own, bespoke. I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family.

(RNS) — After the first Ukrainian-language liturgy was celebrated at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Cherkasy in central Ukraine on Thursday (Oct. 17), rival groups of Orthodox Christians clashed ...

Open prayer and prostration on the Temple ... the Temple Mount counter-clockwise from the southwestern corner of the plaza to ...