–Metropolitan Anthony, I have known people who became religious because they were tormented by the question of the manifestation of evil. I also have known people who have become disillusioned by religion for that same reason.  The first category felt or came to the conviction that the concept of good and evil could not have come into being by itself, …

A Western Australian Liberal MP has warned colleagues and parents about an anti-homophobic bullying program for schools that he claims is a gay “lifestyle promotion program”. WA Government backbencher Peter Abetz has hit out at the program that promotes tolerance and understanding of teens who self-identify as gay, lesbian or transgender. The ordained former pastor of the Christian Reformed Church …

Wounded by Love, By St Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia There is nothing higher than what is called repentance and confession. This sacrament is the offering of God’s love of humankind. In this perfect way a person is freed of evil. We go and confess and we sense our reconciliation with God; joy enters us and guilt departs. In the Orthodox Church …

In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In one of the Psalms we can read the following words: Those who have sown with tears will reap with joy… If in the course of weeks of preparation we have seen all that is ugly and unworthy in us mirrored in the parables, if we have stood …

Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “And Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the works of thine hands”, (Heb. 1:10). Last week in one of my classes in a theological seminary I taught about the …

By Andreas C Chrysafis March, 2015 (No 70) © The geopolitical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean have become like shifting sand; land is gained and lands are lost; souls vanquish and lives perish at each day’s passing! With the Assad ‘regime change” and Jihad atrocities in Syria and Iraq, stability its shaky to say the least. Evidently, accordingly to military …

Wounded by Love, By St Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia We should be zealots. A zealot is a person who loves Christ with all his soul and who serves his fellow men in Christ’s name. Love for God and for a neighbor; they go together and could not be divorced. Passion, yearning and tears along with contrition, not for a purpose, but …

Dear Mode of Life, I would like to thank you for your article on the fullness Church iconography (https://modeoflife.org/iconography-a-statement-of-image/), I found the article wonderfully stimulating, and almost overwhelming in the riches of tradition and theology in which it describes.  My own congregation is a Protestant church which is dedicated to Mark the Evangelist, we have placed an icon of St Mark in …

Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses”. Proverbs 10:12 Every day I wake up and stare at the new illegal Israeli settlement right in front of my kitchen window. It has been a very different life as a Greek-American living in a Palestinian Christian village that my husband loves so much.  This morning after listening …

INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS Not too recently, the Neos Kosmos English Edition published a rather tedious article about Valentine’s Day by a certain Nelly Skoufatoglou. The article in question, interviewed various members of Melbourne’s Greek community about how they viewed or celebrated “Valentine’s Day”. And of course one got an appreciation of differing views, most of which expressed the thought that Valentine’s Day …