OCA: Reflections in Christ
Questions and Answers about Orthodox Christianity
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Guts and Perversity
The earliest Church, from the days of the apostles and into the first centuries, had an abundant share of guts and what…
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“The Cult of Bareness”
I cannot be the only one who has had the experience of visiting a non-Orthodox church service and finding it stunningly empty…
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Why I Am a Christian (Part 2)
In my previous piece, “Why I Am a Christian (Part 1)” I examined the question of why one should believe in the physical…
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Why I Am a Christian (Part 1)
Many years ago, when I was tucking my eldest daughter into bed, she asked me a question: “Dad, why do we believe in the…
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“Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?”
In 1956 an American game show debuted called “To Tell the Truth”. Each round of the game introduced three people all…
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Sermon on the feast of Saint Nicholas
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. I greet all of you with joy on the occasion of the patronal…
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Up It Comes Again—the Whack-a-Mole Heresy
Some heresies never seem to die, but have a disconcerting tendency to pop up in every generation, rather like the emerging…
