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Fr Seraphim Rose On The Theology of St John Maximovitch
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Interview With “A Devotional Heart”
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Why Were You Created? (Video)
Abbot Ephraim of Vatopaidi on the Holy Mountain speaks to students on the mystery and purpose of why we were created. What is the purpose of life? Where do we find rest and healing? This talk was given during the Nativity season, just before St Porphyrios was canonized. Source: Pemptousia
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Attend to Thyself: Attentiveness and Digital Culture
«Πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ»: Attentiveness and Digital Culture Fr. Maximos Constas Senior Research Scholar Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care Athens, 7-9 May, 2015 The Distracted Life Having promised us a technological utopia, our ubiquitous and intrusive cyberculture has instead precipitated a spiritual crisis in which human experience has been systematically fragmented and the coherence of the self increasingly threatened. Living in a culture of organized distractions, our thoughts are isolated and disconnected, preventing us from seeing and experiencing the wholeness of life. Distraction and fragmentation have negative consequences for the organization of knowledge; they prevent us from engaging our spiritual depth,…
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Punks to Monks: Effects of the Last True Rebellion (Video)
In this engaging video, Fr. John Valadez speaks of the soul-destroying pitfalls of the punk culture he once found himself wrapped up in, and how the zine Death to the World, founded by former punks turned monks, helped him and many others to find the light of Christ in the Orthodox Church. Source: Fr Anthony Tandilyan’s YouTube Chanel
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Beyond Torture: Communist Prisons of Romania
“In Communism there were some special prisons which were laboratories–laboratories in which they believed they could create a Communist personality. When you said ‘I still believe in God,’ in five minutes you were full of blood.” This video features Fr. George Calciu, whose writings will be in upcoming Issue XXV.