OrthodoxNet.com - Shining the Light of Wisdom and Truth ONet Blog | Voice Blog | Orthodoxy | Church Latest Articles Our Lord’s Nativity is an Invitation to Enter Into Reality and Find Healing 12/25/2025 - by Fr. Philip LeMasters – Our Lord’s Nativity is not a momentary escape from reality, but an invitation to enter into reality itself and find ... Scrooge Syndrome, A Christmas Carol About Us 12/21/2025 - by Polina Zhukova – We are used to thinking of Scrooge as a villain, but Dickens was writing about the tragedy of loneliness. How an icy heart ... Christ is the Head – Otherwise, Everything Falls Apart 11/20/2025 - by Met. Luke (Kovalenko) – The preeminence of Christ should be in all our life’s initiatives: in words, deeds, conversations, in our ... 10 Essential Conditions for Coming to Know God’s Truth and Finding Life 10/15/2025 - by Fr. Thomas Hopko – 1. The belief that the truth of things can be known, and the desire to know the truth and to do it, wherever it leads, is ... Rejecting Truth is the First Step Toward Murder 10/09/2025 - by Paul E. Scates – Truth is the foundation of a free society. Without universal acknowledgment and acceptance of truth, there is no way humans ... What is Heresy – An Orthodox Christian Teaching 10/02/2025 - St. Nectarios Educational Series – Heresy and heretics have existed from the time of the Apostles and exist today whether as sects outside the ... Ungodly Errors and Heretical Teachings of Archbishop Elpidophoros 09/29/2025 - Archbishop Elpidophoros has a long history of heretical and ungodly behavior. He supports legalizing abortion and gay marriage, and has infamously ... Honoring the Memory of Charlie Kirk, a Witness for Christ and Truth 09/24/2025 - by Fr. Peter Heers – Charlie Kirk was speaking the days, the hours, the minutes leading up to his assassination, about the things that are ... Charlie Kirk’s Example is a Lesson for All Orthodox Christians 09/19/2025 - by Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) – What is especially admirable about Charlie Kirk is his willingness to go and speak about the Kingdom of ... Christian Believers Flee Progressive Religion, Many Find Orthodox Christianity 08/28/2025 - by James Fite – Religion has been losing ground in American society for years, and there are many reasons for the decline. But one modern trend is ... Replacing Confession With Therapy Doesn’t Work 08/16/2025 - by Braeden Sorbo – We traded confession for catharsis—and now we process instead of repent, vent instead of change, and wonder why no one gets ... Extinguish Anger Before it Consumes Us 06/24/2025 - by Fr. Pavel Gumerov – It’s not without reason that the Holy Fathers compare the passion of anger, like lust, with fire, flames, a ... On Guard for the Truth 06/21/2025 - by Fr. Basil Ross Aden – A primary mission of the Orthodox Church is to guard the true faith against false prophets, teachings, and practices. To ... Humility is the Root of Everything in Christian Life 06/17/2025 - by St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea – Humility is a great gift of God. And every step along the path of Christ brings us closer to it. When a ... The Rainbow is Sign of God’s Promise, Not Symbol for Pride and Sexual Immorality 06/10/2025 - by Allen Jackson – The rainbow is not a symbol of personal identity or political ideology. It was never meant to celebrate human pride. The ... The Moral Heresy of Sexual Immorality 05/06/2025 - by Fr. Zechariah Lynch – Orthodoxy has always spoken against sexual perversions, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, and all other sexual ... Public Orthodoxy Supports and Promotes the LGBTQ+ Agenda 05/01/2025 - by Fr. Ioannes Apiarius – George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou are getting paid to pressure the Orthodox Church to accept LGBTQ+ ideas. ... Upbringing of Children According to the Orthodox Church Holy Fathers 04/15/2025 - by Fr. Hector Firoglanis – The spiritual well-being of our children should take priority over their material needs, their secular education, and ... Castrating Boys Symbolizes the Castration of America 04/09/2025 - by Stephen Baskerville – Jeff Younger [Orthodox Christian father] and his sons are suffering an evil of unfathomable proportions at the hands of ... Christian Theology is a Proclamation About Reality, Not a Social Construct 03/10/2025 - by Fr. Stephen Freeman – Christian theology, rightly done, is not a social construct. At its heart, it is a proclamation about reality. We believe ... Democrats Want Sick Men in Women’s Sports and Women’s Bathrooms 03/08/2025 - by Fletch Daniels – Democrats are against protecting women in sports from sick men who masquerade as women. Democrats also insist these mentally ... Raise Children with Prayer in the Home and at Church 02/24/2025 - by Met. Ephrem (Kyriakos) – Children’s behavior is directly connected to the state of the family. Prayer in the family, in the house and in ... Transgender Madness is an Evil That Must be Stopped 02/16/2025 - by Cheryl K. Chumley – Democrats and the left are fighting against a Tennessee law that prohibits minors from receiving “gender-affirming ... Don’t Forget the Most Important Things! 12/27/2024 - by Ariadna Nefedkina – Work and prayer should not contradict each other, but they can become two sides of the same coin. It is important to ... Our Path to Spiritual Maturity 12/20/2024 - by Fr. Andrey Lemeshonok – Only now am I beginning to realise that my life in Christ is just beginning. Before, it was finding grace and losing ... Popular Topics Anti-Abortion Anti-Communism Culture War Intelligent Design Moral Issues Orthodox Christianity Orthodox Church Sanctity of Life The Voice Blog Christmas is About God’s Descent to Man and Man’s Ascent to God 12/21/2025 - by Fr. Pimen Vlad – Christmas is approaching, and with it comes a special kind of peace that people feel, but don’t always ... Gifts of the Magi Contained All the Mysteries of Christ’s Coming 12/17/2025 - by Fr. Thomas Hopko – The adoration of Jesus by the wise men from the East is part of the Nativity celebration in the Orthodox ... Man’s Soul Finds Peace in God Alone 10/10/2025 - by Chris Banescu – Only God can bring genuine peace and calm to the human soul. Only our Saviour has the power to impart this ... Happiness is in the Peaceful Arrangement of the Soul 10/07/2025 - by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) – This means that everyone, without any exception whatsoever, is equally called to battle with ... Children of Light and People of Darkness, We Are Not the Same 09/23/2025 - by Chris Banescu – “And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, ... The Church Mission to the Youth and Future Generations 09/22/2025 - by Abp. Stephen Enea – Our youth are starving for something real. Something permanent. Something eternal. They long for ... Charlie Kirk and Fr. John Strickland Discuss Orthodox Christianity – Full Interview 09/20/2025 - In August 2025 Charlie Kirk talked to Fr. John Strickland, an Orthodox priest, about Orthodox Christianity and the reasons why so many ... Prayer is the Only Medicine That Leads to Life 05/15/2025 - by Bishop Irenei – The life of prayer has always been, and will always be, the fundamental life of the Christian. Without prayer, ... Defend Your Faith When It’s Slandered 05/12/2025 - by St. Gabriel of Georgia – When your faith is slandered in front of you, and you keep silent, you are worse than a blasphemer. ... Free Will Necessary for Salvation, a Compulsory Good Cannot be Good 05/08/2025 - by Fr. Ilya of Optina – A person should preserve his own will and make his own decisions, because only a person himself can make ... Do We Worship the True God or an Idol? 03/05/2025 - by Chris Banescu – Man is a worshiping creature. If he will not worship the true God, he will worship anything else. God created ... Moral Issues Scrooge Syndrome, A Christmas Carol About Us 12/21/2025 - by Polina Zhukova – We are used to thinking of Scrooge as a villain, but Dickens was writing about the tragedy of ... Honoring the Memory of Charlie Kirk, a Witness for Christ and Truth 09/24/2025 - by Fr. Peter Heers – Charlie Kirk was speaking the days, the hours, the minutes leading up to his assassination, ... Charlie Kirk’s Example is a Lesson for All Orthodox Christians 09/19/2025 - by Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) – What is especially admirable about Charlie Kirk is his willingness to go and ... Extinguish Anger Before it Consumes Us 06/24/2025 - by Fr. Pavel Gumerov – It’s not without reason that the Holy Fathers compare the passion of anger, like lust, ... Humility is the Root of Everything in Christian Life 06/17/2025 - by St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea – Humility is a great gift of God. And every step along the path of Christ ... The Rainbow is Sign of God’s Promise, Not Symbol for Pride and Sexual Immorality 06/10/2025 - by Allen Jackson – The rainbow is not a symbol of personal identity or political ideology. It was never meant to ... The Moral Heresy of Sexual Immorality 05/06/2025 - by Fr. Zechariah Lynch – Orthodoxy has always spoken against sexual perversions, fornication, adultery, ... Three Criteria to Help Us Recognize Modern False Prophets 10/09/2024 - by Fr. Geoffrey Korz – There exists today a great deal of material that purports to be Orthodox and Christian. ... Don’t Despair When You Fall, Get Up Eagerly and Do a Metanoia 09/16/2024 - by St. Joseph the Hesychast – Below is a copy of a beautiful letter written by the great 20th century Greek saint ... Each of Us Bears Responsibility for Our Own Choice 09/12/2024 - by Fr. Andrey Lemeshonok – The drama of this world, which has decided to live without God, is unfolding before ... When Death Comes to Dinner – Orthodox Christians Must Oppose Culture of Abortion 08/23/2024 - Many Orthodox Christians do not like to talk about the abortion culture as it exists today. Nonetheless, it is alive, ... Orthodox Saints Got Involved in Politics and Civic Life 08/12/2024 - by Fr. Geoffrey Korz – A Word to Quietists Who Distort the Practice of the Church What are politics? By ... Orthodoxy is Not For Cowards – When Faith is Assaulted, Orthodox Christians Must ... 04/21/2024 - by Fr. Zechariah Lynch – When clear matters of the faith are blatantly assaulted, every sober-minded Orthodox ... The Lord Directly Commands That We Rebuke a Sinning Brother 11/29/2023 - by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) – In order to strengthen their shaky “position”, such false preachers of this ... The Voice Blog ONet Blog Calendar Daily Scriptures Intelligent Design Moral Issues Orthodox Christianity Orthodox Church Orthodox Theology Orthodox Worship Sanctity of Life Scripture Readings Orthodox Issues Our Lord’s Nativity is an Invitation to Enter Into Reality and Find Healing 12/25/2025 - by Fr. Philip LeMasters – Our Lord’s Nativity is not a momentary escape from reality, but ... Christ is the Head – Otherwise, Everything Falls Apart 11/20/2025 - by Met. Luke (Kovalenko) – The preeminence of Christ should be in all our life’s ... 10 Essential Conditions for Coming to Know God’s Truth and Finding Life 10/15/2025 - by Fr. Thomas Hopko – 1. The belief that the truth of things can be known, and the desire to ... What is Heresy – An Orthodox Christian Teaching 10/02/2025 - St. Nectarios Educational Series – Heresy and heretics have existed from the time of the ... Honoring the Memory of Charlie Kirk, a Witness for Christ and Truth 09/24/2025 - by Fr. Peter Heers – Charlie Kirk was speaking the days, the hours, the minutes leading up to ... Charlie Kirk’s Example is a Lesson for All Orthodox Christians 09/19/2025 - by Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) – What is especially admirable about Charlie Kirk is his ... Christian Believers Flee Progressive Religion, Many Find Orthodox Christianity 08/28/2025 - by James Fite – Religion has been losing ground in American society for years, and there are ... Extinguish Anger Before it Consumes Us 06/24/2025 - by Fr. Pavel Gumerov – It’s not without reason that the Holy Fathers compare the passion of ... On Guard for the Truth 06/21/2025 - by Fr. Basil Ross Aden – A primary mission of the Orthodox Church is to guard the true faith ... Humility is the Root of Everything in Christian Life 06/17/2025 - by St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea – Humility is a great gift of God. And every step along the ... The Moral Heresy of Sexual Immorality 05/06/2025 - by Fr. Zechariah Lynch – Orthodoxy has always spoken against sexual perversions, fornication, ... Upbringing of Children According to the Orthodox Church Holy Fathers 04/15/2025 - by Fr. Hector Firoglanis – The spiritual well-being of our children should take priority over ... Christian Theology is a Proclamation About Reality, Not a Social Construct 03/10/2025 - by Fr. Stephen Freeman – Christian theology, rightly done, is not a social construct. At its ... Raise Children with Prayer in the Home and at Church 02/24/2025 - by Met. Ephrem (Kyriakos) – Children’s behavior is directly connected to the state of ... Don’t Forget the Most Important Things! 12/27/2024 - by Ariadna Nefedkina – Work and prayer should not contradict each other, but they can become ... Our Path to Spiritual Maturity 12/20/2024 - by Fr. Andrey Lemeshonok – Only now am I beginning to realise that my life in Christ is just ... Prayer is Not a Way to Change the Will of God, But to Find Communion with Him 12/08/2024 - by Fr. Eugene Murzin – The purpose of a Christian’s life is not to beg God for some earthly ... Thanksgiving is Our Response to God’s Gift 11/23/2024 - by Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky) – For us Orthodox Christians, thanksgiving is our ... Love Endures When All Else Fails 11/17/2024 - by Fr. Basil Ross Aden – The word of the day is “endures.” People these days do not value ... How We Prove Our Love To God 10/14/2024 - by Fr. James Guirguis – The love you desire to have towards God is demonstrated by the actual ... 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