The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

It seems quite cruel not to comfort heterodox family members when a loved one dies. What is more important love or following a law, which is there to guide us, but should not be held above love, should it? This would be like refusing to accept food offered during a fasting period, just to keep the ...

I believe His Grace, Bishop Mark attended our parish for awhile around the time he attended ORU.

As far as if Billy Graham and Oral are Freemasons, you might want to ask Metropolitan Philip, he may or may not know--I've heard some say he's one, but I don't want to believe it.

Basil

Yes, GYLM, it was ORU.

Although I'm openly critical of the theology of the university, there are professors teaching there from various Christians backgrounds. A pro-Roman Catholic, now Catholic convert, Dr. James Shelton, taught church history, which brought me 1/2 the way to Orthodoxy. I'm ...

I can also confirm that what DavidHawthorne states is true, as I also attended a major charismatic university, at the time studying to be a preacher. I had to attend chapel twice a week and attended a charismatic church on Sundays and never once saw evidence of a real miracle, although some ...

A former student at Jordanville, who gives it high praises, advised me to pursue seminary elsewhere (but not St. Vlads), since I do not speak Russian and have a limited aptitude in the area of foreign languages. I'm a sad monolingual American, to my shame. :cry:

Being that many ROCOR parishes have ...

I want to read Mountain of Silence!

I am just about finished with the two volume set Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos . I feel like I learned more about Orthodox spirituality from those books than all the intoductory/theological works I read. After all, Orthodox spirituality is action driven ...

Would this more-orthodox-than-thou attitude so common on this site be indicative of the illness of prelest? I don't know much about it, but the lack of humility in such an attitude definitely seems very strange. Are there ways to defend the truth humbly? I would like to remain faithful to the true ...