Dear All,
This is a quotation from the article of a priest. “It is high time that we took a holistic and more humanistic approach to religion so that it becomes the catalyst that brings about universal brotherhood.”
Every religion teaches that salvation, means free from all earthly worries and problems, invites pre-requisites of cordial relationship and [...]
Dear Believers,
Continuing with what we have discussed before.“The misinterpretation comes on the context of the verse, “You are Peter, petros, and on this rock I will build my church”. Therefore, “He will build the church on the rock of his faith that Jesus is the son of the living God”” is in question now. Does [...]
Dear All,
The Creation episode has apparently become a myth because of the unfathomable mysteries that are shrouded around it. The first two verses of Genesus.1 seemingly portray the events that happened in two aeons of timelessness that is not within the limits of earthly time. When God created and planted the Lucifer legion on this [...]
Dear Believers,
There is hardly any proof to show that St.Peter had any authority over other disciples. It was only as the representative of disciples that Jesus saw Peter in Mathew 16:18-19, and John 21:18-19
I take this opportunity to stress the point that the offer of authority given to St.peter in Mt16: 18-19 was on the [...]
Category: Independent View
Perspective: Indian Orthodox Church
I have been beating my head against the brick wall for the last 19 years against this `nombu’ through my books, internet and discourses. Today I heard from my young relative mumbling that he was sick of listening to my delusions. What is normal has become abnormal during the [...]
Category: Personal Opinion Article
Last evening I was back at university, and while there I was reminded yet again how Orthodox Christianity remains largely unknown and/or misunderstood in the Western World. The class I’m taking this semester is a Philosophy course on Moral Reasoning. Yesterday evening’s lecture consisted of an overview of where humanity acquires [...]
Category: Independent Article
Located at the crossroads of migration and trade routes from Europe, the Middle East and South Asia for millennia now, Turkey has been influenced by a great mix of people, bringing with them not only their own culture and customs but also a multitude of religious beliefs.
Indeed, the mosaic of faiths in Turkey [...]
Pravmir Website Article
It is always difficult in these relativistic times, when the only heresy is to speak of heresy, to present the Orthodox teaching about the completeness of our faith. It comes across often as arrogance when in fact we do not mean that we are anything special at all, we readily confess our [...]
Category- Independent Article
When Patriarch Kirill visited Russia’s largest shipyard in late August, he was greeted with full military honors.
As a brass band played at the Northern Shipyard in Severodvisnk, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church strolled past a row of sailors in dress uniform, boarded a nuclear submarine, and presented the crew with [...]
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