Dear friends, Ten men in total were ordained readers at the 2023 ROCOR-WR conference, which took place in a hotel conference room in Sarasota, Florida. See the featured photo above, which shows nine of them including myself, second from the right. The tenth is obscured by Fr. Mark’s hand. Bishop James of Sonora, second vicar …
Saint Basil Books is an Orthodox Christian ministry, so it should perhaps be said that my mother was not an Orthodox Christian, but I wish to honor her here on this blog because because the scriptures say, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord …
I’m enrolled in the Saint Irenaeus House of Orthodox Studies (SIHOS.org), a program of study to become an Orthodox Christian priest. My first course was Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. Fr. Mark Rowe, administering the course, announced that the final exam question would be just four words: “Tell me about Jesus.” It’s so simple and yet it …
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, friends, and all, Yesterday we were very blessed to have some guests for Palm Sunday. Our guests brought fern fronds to serve as palm branches. And my son picked fronds from the ravine behind our house. In Russia they wave willows; in Ireland, yew branches; and in coastal Oregon …
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Why do people bow to another person? Or why did they?—because we don’t do this anymore in Western nations. Does bowing display weakness or strength? What does it mean to us today in our worship as Orthodox Christians?
Aren’t we saved by Jesus? Isn’t it blasphemous to ask someone else to save us? Christian metaphysical realism vs. Late medieval nominalism.
For anyone discovering us for the first time, you may wonder, how exactly are we connected with the nation of Russia? And why be connected with Russia, especially during the current war? The answer is that we are not connected with…
Fr. Mark Rowe sent the following article to me, saying, “I found this to echo many of my own experiences.” I’ve underlined a few things that I believe are particularly pertinent, one of them being, “Map out…
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ of Brookings and Harbor Oregon, My family and I have been very blessed to pray and fellowship with many of you here in our beautiful seaside town, both at our house…