We’re just a few weeks away from the start of the Great Lent. As with any fast, this period is an incredible opportunity that can help us in at least four ways: Fasting helps us be mindful of what we say. It’s about more than what goes into our mouths, it’s also about what comes…

        Can seven words—Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me—change lives? It may seem a lot of effort over just seven words: Finding 110 Eastern Orthodox Christians, giving them a battery of tests ranging from psychology to theology to behavioral medicine, and then repeating the tests 30 days later. But the seven…

Recently, a concern was voiced by some parents of young children regarding the difficulty of having their youngsters sit through our “long worship services.” Having been a parent of young children for many years with a wife who basically functioned as a single parent every Sunday and feast day, I am aware of how difficult…

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Marriage was ordained by God as a blessing to the human race. A certain wise man in the Scriptures, when enumerating which blessings are the most important, included “a wife and husband who live in harmony” (The Wisdom of Sirach 25:1). From the beginning, God in His providence planned this union of man and woman.…