Articles

By John Kapsalis

If you want me to believe in your Redeemer, then you’ve got to look a lot more redeemed.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in a fast-paced, hectic world where we rush through everything in our lives. We work hard and long to be able to get things that will help us relax and enjoy life, but even our relaxing has become rushed and stressful. We run to the latest mass-produced platitudes that will give us the secret to happiness and life only to go back to drugging our pain away instead. Even our trips to church are a mad rush to get everyone there for an hour of worship. Is it any wonder then that the celebration of the birth of the Saviour of the world has been reduced to a dreadful exchange of useless trinkets, excessive feasting and worthless chatter?

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By Frederica Mathewes-Green

Any director who attempts to bring a beloved novel to the screen can expect his fair share of slings and arrows. Just ask Peter Jackson, the hardworking genius behind the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, or any of the parade of directors who have delivered “Harry Potter” films. The latest to step up for a smackdown is Andrew Adamson, previously known for “Shrek,” as he offers his fresh and magnificent production of C.S. Lewis’ novel, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”

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AN OUTLINE OF THE ORTHODOX WORLD VIEW of FATHER JOHN of KRONSTADT

By Fr. Michael Pomazansky

There is an unusual attractive power, particularly for the pastor, in the personality of Father John of Kronstadt, even in his portrait, the attraction of his writings, in his. diary “My life in Christ”. There is a peaceful and consoling quality in the notes of his dairy, not to mention the very subjects of his talks which exalt spiritually, uplift and strengthen one. Once you have opened the book, the eye is drawn aside only with great difficulty, and the hand seems by itself to turn one page after another. Whence comes this drawing of hearts to Fr. John?

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