10 Orthodox Christian Events You Can’t Miss In 2024

  Now is as good a time as any to look ahead to what this year will bring. For Orthodox Christians, it means marking down the top Orthodox events of 2024. This year promises to be an eventful one — from academic conferences to film festivals to summer retreats and international gatherings. In fact, there […]

12 Biggest Stories Involving Orthodox Christianity That Took Place In 2023

Unsplash photo Journalists covering global Orthodoxy were particularly busy this year. In fact, 2023 marked a momentous period for reporting on the church. The ongoing Russian invasion, the calendar change in Ukraine and the deepening of the rift between Constantinople and Moscow defined the year that ends in just a few days. And with 2023 […]

Illinois And South Carolina Rank Tops In Religious Liberty Index

    Illinois and South Carolina have the most religious liberty safeguards currently in place, while states such as West Virginia ranked at the bottom, a report issued by a conservative think tank revealed. The Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy at First Liberty Institute, a non-profit legal organization dedicated to defending religious freedom, issued […]

Battle Over Bibles: Q&A With Arizona School Board Mom Canceled Over Scripture Verse

  School board seats across the United States were arguably some of the most heated races of the 2022 midterm elections. For years, school board campaigns remained non-partisan. However, with education issues taking center stage regarding such contentious issues as transgenderism, school boards have emerged as new political and cultural battlegrounds between the political left […]

5 Facebook Groups To Join During Orthodox Awareness Month

  October is Orthodox Awareness Month. Orthodox Christian Fellowship, a leading Eastern Orthodox student organization, dedicated the month to raise awareness of OCF in the Orthodox community and among non-Orthodox students on college campuses nationwide. OCF is holding virtual events, in-person gatherings and prayer services on college campuses across the country. OCF encourages Orthodox Christians […]

5 Documentaries About Orthodox Christianity To Watch This Month

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  (REVIEW) Watching documentary films is never easy. Oftentimes, documentaries can be both intellectually challenging and culturally enriching — especially if they are about the church and faith.  Over the last couple of decades, documentaries with religious themes usually explore controversial topics and paint a dark picture of an organized religion. Orthodox Christian documentaries have […]

5 Orthodox Christian Podcasts You Should Be Listening To Right Now

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(REVIEW) Since its appearance in the mid-2000s, the podcast format has been one of the fastest growing media forms. According to Forbes, at the beginning of this year, there were 5 million podcasts with 70 million episodes available. As of today, that number is likely higher. Various news and entertainment outlets, religious organizations and churches […]

Mississippi And Illinois Rank Highest In Nation’s Religious Liberty, New Study Shows 

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WASHINGTON— The majority of Americans live with less than half of the legal protections of religious freedom available in other states, according to new research by the conservative think tank Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy. CRCD launched the Religious Liberty in the States Index on Sept. 14, which rates religious freedom in all 50 […]

From Alaska To Fiji — The Story Of One Family’s Spiritual Journey

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EAGLE RIVER, Alaska — Michael and Meghan Jones were seeing their construction business flourish in this rural suburb outside of Anchorage when they got a wild notion: Move to Fiji.  The motivation for this family with four young children to uproot and migrate from colder to warmer climate wasn’t the island lifestyle. Rather, it was […]

A Seminary That Serves As Kodiak Island’s Arctic Willow

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The Arctic Willow by Varlaam Shalamow  The willow flowers, packed in snow, The willow must hurry, To live like a bird, like a man If it really wishes to live.  KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska — Kassiana Sonday wakes at 5 a.m. most days to rush to the early chapel and help prepare for morning prayer at […]