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It’s Easy to Give Up and Give In

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love[…]

Fear Not Little Flock

To choose Orthodox Christianity here in North America is to immediately place oneself apart from the majority. I learned this firsthand the other night when[…]

ANTITHEISM IN MY LIFE, PART 1

“The entire devil is found here: in the desire to exclude God, in the desire to always be by himself, to always belong only to[…]

From Revolution to Restoration

When I was quite young, my mother abandoned my younger sister, kid brother and I for a life of Drug Addiction, and just a few[…]

The Opening of the Senses

By Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov Printed in Issue 6* PEOPLE become capable of seeing spirits by a certain alteration of the senses, which is accomplished in[…]

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Our History IN THE WILDERNESS of Northern California, Monks John and Damascene searched in hopes of finding a way to reach out to the Punk[…]

A Letter to Thomas Merton

By Fr. Seraphim Rose I am a young American convert to Russian Orthodoxy—not the vague “liberal” spirituality of too many modern Russian “religious thinkers,” but[…]

The Impossibility of Aloneness: When Christ Found Me in the Himalayas

By Subdeacon Joseph Magnus Frangipani Printed in Issue 24 I’m an Orthodox Christian living in Homer, Alaska and experienced Jesus Christ in the Himalayas, in[…]

Raising the Mind, Warming the Heart

By Blessed Seraphim Rose of Platina Raising the Mind, Warming the Heart 1. Faith and Reason The writings of the Russian philosopher Ivan Kireyevsky contain[…]

The Orthodox Worldview

By Blessed Hieromonk St. Seraphim Rose Before beginning my talk, a word or two on why it is important to have an Orthodox world-view, and[…]

The Self-Liquidation of Christianity

The striking phrase, “God is dead,” is the poetical expression of modern unbelief. Much is expressed in this phrase that is not to be found[…]