Like all Americans, I am struggling to make sense out of the massacre of twenty beautiful children, and the six adults who sacrificed their own lives protecting countless other children from a twenty year old psychotic, who’d shot one child as many as seven times. In the depths of my
Category: The Morning Offering
Statement from the Office of the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, in connection with the Attack on the Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut Dear brethren, sisters and children! With horror I followed the tragedy that unfolded yesterday in a school in the state of Connecticut, during which a
Our Violent Culture and the Despair of Nihilism As my readers know, I have been attending the Orthodox Frontline, (Emergency Response Network of the International Orthodox Christian Charities), conference in Washington, D.C. Together with one hundred Orthodox clergy and lay volunteers from across the nation, trained and experienced chaplains, counselors,
I am attending the Orthodox Frontline (Emergency Response Network of the International Orthodox Christian Charities) conference in Washington, D.C. Orthodox clergy and lay volunteers from across the nation, trained and experienced chaplains, counselors, therapists, emergency response managers, social workers, medical doctors, registered nurses, emergency medical technicians and other related fields,
If we truly desire to be transformed and made whole, we must keep alert and be vigilant. We must live in all sobriety, and with all attentiveness we must guard our inward thoughts. We must keep pure our heart, and maintain guard over our intellect. We must keep watch. With
Emergency Response Network of IOCC I have had the honor of serving King County Sheriff’s Department and Vashon Island Fire and Rescue, as an Emergency Response Chaplain, for some ten years. During this time I have grown to love and respect those among us who, on a daily basis, put
If you are to Win the Battle,Focus only on Your own Sins When we take our eyes off our own failings, shortcomings, and sins, we notice the failings of others. As the sins of others get our attention, our focus turns away from our own struggles with the passions, and
Seattle as seen from the Water Taxi The Problem of Ethnic Purity Within the Life of the Church We Orthodox Christians, as a whole, are guilty of abandoning our Christ directed mission of making disciples of every nation, by preserving the needs of ethic groups (Russians, Greeks, Arabs, Serbs), often
Letting Our Life be a Witness to God When others see how we negotiate our life, how we treat our fellow workers, and our family, they should see how we live in devotion and praise of God. Our deeds and our speech must reveal the love of God to those
Visitors from Norway, together with Hammi, the Norwegian Forest Cat Cooperating with the Physician of Our Souls Although imprecise, we often use anthropomorphic language when speaking about God. Thus, we can say that God is like a mother whose sick child is in need of healing, and is not offended