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Indignation
Monk - Moisis Haghiorite
25 October 2012
Indignation may be linked to anger, wrath, mischief, irritability and resentment. There is righteous...
Young People in Greece
Monk Moses the Athonite
3 August 2012
Young people in Greece today have a number of weaknesses. They don’t like hard work, they’re indif...
The Struggle Between Two Worlds
Fr. Tryphon
30 May 2012
In this photo released by the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, US h...
Churches show unity best by servitude
Fr. John Parker
28 May 2012
From the beginning, it has not been so. A group of churches - among them Methodist, Baptist, Presb...
True Church Growth
Fr. John Parker
26 May 2012
“Grand opening.” When we see such an advertisement for a store, we think low prices—bargains. More...
The culture of a Mother’s Ministry
Sylvia Leontaritis
22 May 2012
As the time draws near for Angelo to enter Kindergarten I find myself on a roller coaster of emoti...
Marriage and Possible Alternatives: The Pursuit of Wholeness and Holiness*
Fr. John H. Erickson
14 May 2012
No apology is needed for the theme of the seminary’s 2004 Summer Institute: “Does Christia...
Life in death
Melinda Johnson
8 May 2012
There were two deaths in my world this week, one a beautiful elderly man who attended my church, t...
“The Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis: a Prophecy and a Challenge
Fr. Lawrence R. Farley
6 May 2012
Evidence for C.S. Lewis’ status as a prophet could be argued from two of his works, one of which i...
A Spiritual Migration: The Story of my Return Home
Gale Bellas-Papageorge
25 April 2012
As I was growing up, I was living in a world that neither my mother nor father had a complete unde...
Orthodox Leadership in a Brave New World
Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse
23 April 2012
Almost thirty years ago Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered an address atHarvardUn...
How to Make Friends at Church
Elizabeth Mainson
12 April 2012
Some time ago, I was approached by a new parishioner, after Liturgy, with a question, “How do I be...
Slavery USA
David W T Brattston
29 March 2012
  The Bible and early post-Biblical Christian literature opposes slaveholding by Christians in the ...
Violence in sports
David W T Brattston
28 March 2012
Do Christians really disobey Christ’s command to “turn the other cheek” and “resist not evil” when...
What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?
Fr. Lawrence R. Farley
16 March 2012
The best place to access the views, questions, prejudices and challenges of the World is, I believ...
Should we hate religion?
Bev. Cooke
29 February 2012
There was a lot of talk in January about Jefferson Bethke’s “Why I hate religion but love Jesus” spo...
Searching for Heart in a Heartless World
Gale Bellas-Papageorge
28 February 2012
I was having a conversation recently about the Occupy Movement, where it was described to me as viol...
Proper Attire in the House of God
Fr. Tryphon
24 February 2012
The Church is our home, a place where we should feel comfortable, and at ease. It is also God’s hous...
How to Really Raise a Child

18 January 2012
The last hour of daylight and we’re taking the children for a walk, catching the final rays of light...
Connecting with God in a World of Mass Advertising
Gale Bellas-Papageorge
6 January 2012
(Written exclusively for Pemptousia.com) Whether watching television, reading a newspaper, walking ...
Occupy Movement
Fr. Lawrence R. Farley
5 January 2012
Anyone who has not been comatose for the last several weeks has heard of the “Occupy Movement”, whic...
Benediction Fiction

2 December 2011
Once I accepted an invitation to give the benediction at the graduation of the Medical University of...
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On Humility
Archimandrite Agathangelos Mikhaïlidis- Xenofontinos (1908-1...
Saint John of the Ladder
John the Sinaite (+ Fourth Sunday of Great Lent): “On Vaingl...
Why are we called Christians
Concerning the Diet of the Fathers
Dimensions of the Fast
Person and Spirituality
The Orthodox Church of Finland
The Veneration of the Cross
The Cross as a Means of Sanctification and Transformation of...
St Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury (+605)
Αn Olympic Winner dedicates his medal to The Mother of God
The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras
Designation of Orthodoxy and Heresy – St Gregory Palamas [II...