About Preaching
Preaching: Intelligible and Effective – An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
This interview, with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) is not all about preaching, but he makes the profound and necessary connection between preaching and mission (without which there would be no Church). I've republished the article in its entirety. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the … [More...]
Unexpected Blessings: Festival of Young Preachers 2012
by Jason Ketz This past autumn, about the time that students hit their post-midterm academic lull, I was presented with a curious opportunity. One of my professors, Fr. Sergius Halvorsen, invited members of his homiletics class to apply for an all-expense-paid trip...to Louisville, Kentucky...over … [More...]
Patristics
On The Bread And Wine
St. Ambrose of Milan Perhaps you will say, I see something else, how is it that you … [Read More...]
Stand Fast and Watch
by St. John Maximovitch Stand fast on spiritual watch, because you don't know when the … [Read More...]
On The Divine Gifts
by St. Simeon the New Theologian Brethren and fathers, How great is the condescension … [Read More...]
Biblical Resources
The Case For Byzantine Priority: Conclusion
by Maurice A. Robinson Concluding Observations Every variant unit can be evaluated … [Read More...]
The Case For Byzantine Priority: Part 9
by Maurice A. Robinson Inaccuracies and misleading claims The Byzantine Textform has … [Read More...]
The Case For Byzantine Priority: Part 8
by Maurice A. Robinson Selected Objections to the Byzantine-Priority Hypothesis While … [Read More...]
Sermon Resources
Certainty, Freedom and the Perception of Beauty
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Ever since opening the first volume of Tanquerey's Dogmatics more than a half-century ago, I have sensed an ironic problem in the apologetics of modern Christians: An uncertainty about the meaning of certainty. The root of the problem, I believe, is modern philosophy's implicit acceptance of rigid scientific and mathematical … [More...]
Why Jesus Had To Be Virgin Born: St. Maximus the Confessor Explains
by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos Pleasure and Pain According to St. Maximus the Confessor In his Centuries on Theology St. Maximus the Confessor refers to the nexus of the dualism of pleasure and pain, which, by any standard, is an important subject. This means that we cannot discuss Orthodox Theology if we fail to face this crucial point, because the … [More...]
Death By Torah
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon One of the major ideas---and perhaps the culminating idea---in the second chapter of Ephesians is the unity of gentiles with Jews to form a single people for God. These two, formerly estranged, have been united, Paul says, through the blood of Christ: “He himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle … [More...]
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