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The Nativity of Christ

Winter 2018 December 25, 2017 The Nativity of Christ Light of Light, Brightness of the Father, You have made the whole creation shine with joy! (Hymn of Vespers of the Feast) To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the…

Archpastoral Message of Metropolitan Tikhon

Winter 2018 Primate of Orthodox Church in America Christ is born! Glorify Him! My beloved Brethren and Blessed Children in the Lord, As we come to the end of the civil year, we reflect back on a period in which tragedy, acts of terrorism, shootings in public spaces, political confusion, and sexual misconduct allegations dominate…

Orthodox Evangelism

Fall 2017 article on Orthodox Evangelism. Click here to read full article

RECONCILIATION

T.A. McMahon The Berean Call, December 1, 2017 (Editor’s Note: During this Christmas Season, we present this beautiful article written by a prominent Protestant thinker and writer, Rev. T.A. McMahon, Executive Editor of The Berean Call. The following article is doctrinally sound and Orthodox within the scope of The Voice of Orthodoxy according to our assessment,…

The Last Christian Emperor – Haile Selassie I and Orthodox Christianity

Addis Ababa Conference Solomon Kibriye (Editor – Ethiopian Affairs) – OCP News Service – 15/11/7 November, 2017 marks the 87th anniversary of the coronation of the last Christian Emperor in the world, a member of the Oriental Orthodox Communion. At the Cathedral of Saint George in Addis Ababa, the Coptic Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox…

The Cross of Christ is Foolishness to the World

Fall 2017 The Cross of Christ is Foolishness to the World: A Swedish Lutheran Bishop Wars Against the Christian Faith By John G. Panagiotou http://www.aoiusa.org/ October 9, 2015 This week Bishop Eva Brunne of the Lutheran Church of Sweden proposed that the Cross be removed from the Seamen’s Church in the Swedish city of Freeport to make…

The Role of the Bishop of Rome

Fall 2017 The Role of the Bishop of Rome in the Communion of the Churches in the First Millenium By Protopresbyter Anastasios Gotsopoulos The 14th Meeting of the Joint International Committee for the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Theological Dialogue in Chieti, Italy (15-22.9.2016). Were the Western Orthodox Fathers ignored in the committee’s search for a common understanding…

Fr. George Florovsky on The Boundaries of the Church

Fr. George Florovsky on The Boundaries of the Church

Fall 2017 Fr. George Florovsky By Athanasius Yevtich, bishop of Zahumlje and Herzegovina Note by Fr. Peter Heers, editor of Orthodox Ethos: It is with gratefulness to God and relief that Orthodox Ethos is finally able to publish in the English language the following exceptional lecture by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich on the well-known and well-utilized…

Papal Infallibility Becomes Dogma

by Michael Whelton ( Excerpt taken from the book Two Paths ) Republished from: http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/papaldogma.aspx On September 8th, 1713, Pope Clement XI issued a Bull, Unigenitus, which among other things condemned the proposition that reading of the bible is for everyone, 1 and seemed to exalt the efficacy of grace to the point of destroying…

The difference between Orthodox and heretics

The difference between Orthodox and heretics in… medical terms And why common prayers are senseless Source: “Empirical Dogmatics of the Orthodox Catholic Church according to the oral lessons of Fr. J. Romanides” – Vol.B By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Saint Vlassios Source: http://www.oodegr.com/oode/thriskies/genika/airesh_or8odoksia_1.htm A previous article had shown that, just as there…

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