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,
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,
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
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
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.
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…
I’ve been combing the internet trying to find videos and other materials that explain what Western-Rite Orthodoxy is all about. The first place you’ll want to go is to the website (rocor-wr.com) of our group of over…