LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...

Playing in the fields of heresy and ambiguity might offer short-term kicks, but only sound doctrine can supply a lifetime of thrills. Trevin Wax stands firmly in Chesterton’s tradition with his new ...

Patriarch Kirill’s (right) messianic exceptionalism — his vision of Russia as called to save the world from itself — and his complicity with the propaganda of the Russian state and actions of ...

Among the many issues that divide East and West, the papacy is arguably the largest issue that concerns theologians today. This sentiment has been repeated by many Christian leaders, Catholics and ...

St. Sophia Cathedral is quiet and almost empty when I step inside on a wintry morning. Saints in icons on the walls and pillars stare at me. A huge mosaic of the Mother of God, known as the Oranta, ...

The other day, I read Carl Trueman's piece in First Things titled "David French And The Future Of Orthodox Protestantism". Nowhere in the short essay is "orthodox Protestantism" defined. In the ...

There are two ways to look at the controversy raging in the Orthodox world right now over a fledgling movement that calls itself “Open Orthodoxy.” One way is to put the controversy under a microscope ...

An article which looks at Modern Orthodoxy, its world views and customs and touches upon Open and Centrist Orthodoxy. Judaism responded in different ways to the Enlightenment and the development of ...

Sainthood is not determined by the pope; sainthood is only officially recognized by the pope through the canonization process of the Catholic Church. In other words, all people who die in God’s ...

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“In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed,” Samuel G. Freedman announced in his widely discussed volume titled Jew vs. Jew. Freedman, himself raised as a ...

An article which looks at Modern Orthodoxy, its world views and customs and touches upon Open and Centrist Orthodoxy. Judaism responded in different ways to the Enlightenment and the development of ...