Leadership and Listening
I have been writing about skills needed for leadership over the last few months but one of the most over looked skills is the Art of Listening. One of the minis...
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Patriarch Daniel ~ Man Has an Infinite Value for God
On 8 July 2012, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church delivered a sermon at the summer chapel of the Patriarchal Residence, in which h...
Greek Orthodox Church Stance on the “God Particle”
By Areti Kotseli on July 7, 2012 The Metropolitan of Messinia Chrysostomos expressed his opinion over the discovery of the so-called “God particle” that astonis...
Metropolitan Jonah tenders resignation
(OCA) In a letter addressed to the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops dated Friday, July 6, 2012, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah tendered his resignation a...
Sermon ~ Are You Saved?
5th Sunday after Pentecost St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans 10:1-10 Are You Saved? We hear in today’s reading the Letter of St. Paul to the Roman’s that it...
The Working Session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church
The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 5 July 2012, the working session of the Romanian Orthodox Church took place in the Synodal Room of ...
5th Sunday after Pentecost
Fifth Orthros Gospel The Reading is from Luke 24:13-35 At that time, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and tal...
The Power of Prayer
I am a firm believer in the power of prayer. I have seen lives transformed by prayer and people praying for them. As an Orthodox Christian we also believe in ...
Top 10 Posts ~ June 2012
Here is a list of the Top 10 Posts from the blog for June 2012. Thanks to the 1,498 of you who came by and read my writings. Welcome to those of you who are n...
Dark Asceticism
Dr. Al Rossi, Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Theology at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York, has a newly released podcast on Ancient Faith Radio dealing w...