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This kind of thing should be reported to the bishop. The church is not a place for political partisanship.

Christians have always believed in the virgin birth.

What brought you to faith the first time, when you became Orthodox? And why do you believe you need to be convinced all over again, "from the beginning"?

Apparently there is a movement to canonize the first political leader of modern Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias. Does anyone have more substantial information on this? Scanty info in the link: http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/12/dirt-from-grave-of-saint-porphyrios.html

Is he on the calendar of saints like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and son?

Is there a difference between a canon to a saint at matins and a supplicatory canon to the same saint that one would do at a separate paraklesis service?

I've been doing research on the Magi or Wise Men online and most of it is from a Western (and late Medieval) perspective. I am looking for information from an Oriental Orthodox (and Eastern Orthodox) perspective. I'd be interested in images, quotes from your saints' lives, comemmoration dates...

I know Sasha is one of the most common diminuitives of Alexander. How common is Shurik? And are there any others, particularly any more native to Ukraine. Spasibo!

Here is a You Tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgLWE_9r3J4&feature=related It says that it's the end of the Syriac Qurbana/Liturgy. The Byzantine rite has very little time from after communion to the end of the liturgy. I'd like to know what's going on here if someone could help...

I suppose this could just as easily go under book reviews, too, but I just had to say how much I have benefited reading this book. It is available online for free in e-form here: http://www.stgregoryofnarek.am/ For those who don't know, it is a collection of compunctionate prayers written by an...

Pray to God for us, much-slandered Holy Father! http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/06/hieromartyr-cyril-lukaris-celebrated-by.html In June of 2009 the Holy Synod of the Alexandrian Patriarchate declared Hieromartyr Cyril Lukaris (Kyrillos Loukaris) a Saint of the Orthodox Church. His memory...

I just received a copy of "The Agpeya: The Coptic Book of Hours," edited by Fr. Matthias Farid Wahba and published by St. Antonius Coptic Orthodox Church of the San Francisco Bay Area. It's the 1999 Second Edition. I like this volume very much, but I wonder if it is complete. It certainly reads...

I'm interested in learning about Churches that were once autocephalous in history, but are no longer. If those who know could provide information including some background, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Hello, I've really enjoyed watching You Tube videos of Syriac liturgy--a couple in English, and I have a nice CD of liturgy at St. Mark's in Jerusalem. But I was wondering if anyone here knew of a video or CD and text of Syriac Liturgy in English. I have seen several East Syriac liturgy texts...

I have heard of those who are Orthodox and received through Chrismation being baptized afterward because their heterodox baptism was not in the proper form--not triple immersion,and thus the economia of the Chrismation was not correctly applied because it requires both the Trinity and triple...