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Stealing Paradise in Your Sleep: Reflections on the Paschal Victory
The events of Holy Week and Pascha systematically break our spiritual self-reliance, leaving us with the staggering reality that the King of Glory…
Apr 15
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The Feast for the Eleventh-Hour Crashers: Or, Why God is a Terrible Accountant
How the Church's most famous Easter sermon dismantles our spiritual meritocracy and sets a table where the slackers get paid exactly the same as the…
Apr 11
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Jamey Bennett
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The Midnight Earthquake: A Field Guide to Orthodox Holy Week
An insider's guide to the theology, the services, and the sheer metaphysical weight of standing in the nave during Holy Week - AUDIO Enclosed
Apr 5
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Jamey Bennett
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Great Lent: A Field Guide for New Orthodox Christians (and the Rest of Us)
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The Midnight Earthquake: A Field Guide to Orthodox Holy Week
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Finding the One Church: An Orthodox Response to Protestant Struggles with Unity and Authority
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The Strange Geometry of Downward Mobility
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St. Gregory Palamas Sunday: Why the Church Pauses Lent for a Condemned Man
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The Feast for the Eleventh-Hour Crashers: Or, Why God is a Terrible Accountant
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The Strange Geometry of Downward Mobility
Metropolitan Saba published a "real talk" prayer about confusing our own ego with zeal for God's house
Mar 30
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The Four Foes and Four Friends of the Great Fast: A Look at Saint Ephraim’s Prayer
Why the Church spends forty days asking God to cure us of idle talk, spiritual laziness, and the need to be right
Mar 22
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Jamey Bennett
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The Hitman, the Chalice, and the Trap of False Piety
We may want salvation to be an abstract idea, but God insists on healing us through bread, wine, and the gritty reality of Confession
Mar 16
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Demystifying the Septuagint: What Orthodox Christians Actually Mean When We Say "We Read the Greek Old Testament"
The Greek Old Testament was important to early Orthodox worship and theology—yet the same fathers who loved it also compared, corrected, and…
Mar 13
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Jamey Bennett
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St. Gregory Palamas Sunday: Why the Church Pauses Lent for a Condemned Man
Exploring the Patristic foundations and spiritual legacy of St Gregory Palamas with Rev. Dr Bogdan Bucur and Dr Alexander Titus
Mar 8
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A Slow Unraveling: Rethinking 1054 & the East-West Schism
Revisiting the real moments that pulled Orthodox and Catholic Christians apart with a little help from Dr. Cyril Jenkins
Mar 6
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Jamey Bennett
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Packing for Pascha: What to Carry, What to Drop, & Why the Hardest Part of Lent Isn’t the Burger
Fr. Mark Leondis on why the Great Fast is less about the menu and more about the map
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