Fr. Evan welcomes Fr. Michael Gillis to co-host with him as calls flow in from Spokane, Phoenix, Tulsa, and Memphis. The Tulsa call was from an Oral Roberts University student looking into Orthodoxy!

Fr. Evan welcomes Fr. Gabriel Rochelle to join him as co-host as they tackle questions together ranging from missions in the early Church compared to today, leavened bread in the Eucharist, and humility.

Fr. Evan Armatas welcomes Fr. Alexander Rentel from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary as a guest co-host. Fr. Alexander is an expert on canon law and together they tackled a variety of listener questions from calls, email, the chat room, and pre-recorded.

Lines were jammed as Fr. Evan and his guest co-host Fr. Michael Tishel took calls with questions on sharing the Orthodox faith without arguing, Mary the God-bearer, Phyletism, and much more.

We celebrate the 200th episode of Orthodoxy Live with call-ins from Dr. Jeannie Constantinou, Fr. Thomas Soroka, Bill Marianes, Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, and Fr. Evan's wife, among others.

Dn. Theodore, the Director of Community of St. John the Compassionate Mission, reminds us that our relationship with God needs to be simpler and a lot more trusting.

Fr. Roberto Ubertino, Founder and Executive Director of St. John the Compassionate Mission, tells the story of a man who would have given up hope if not for his remembrance of the bells at the mission.

Meet Helen, one of the treasures who is part of the Mission. Taken from Walking Humbly: The Holiness of the Poor, by St. John the Compassionate Mission.

Meet Daniel, one of the treasures at the Mission. Taken from Walking Humbly: The Holiness of the Poor, by St. John the Compassionate Mission.

Listen to excerpts from this past Sunday's bulletin at St. John the Compassionate Mission, serving the most vulnerable in Toronto.

Listen to excerpts from this past Sunday's bulletin at St. John the Compassionate Mission, serving the most vulnerable in Toronto.

Listen to reflections about encountering Christ in the midst of pain, from St. John the Compassionate Mission.

Hear five short stories of people who are part of the community at St. John the Compassionate Mission, as written by Brother Luke.

Listen to stories and reflections from Fr. Nicolaie at St. John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto,

Fr. Nicolaie writes about forgiveness and loss at St. John the Compassionate Mission.

Reflections written by Fr. Nicolaie for the Sixth Sunday of Luke: the story of the farmer who wanted to build more barns.

A Prayer of Welcome on the Occassion of Someone New Coming to Live with Us, written by Brother Luke.

Reflections written by Fr. Nicolaie.

It is always better to give than to receive. When we try to help other people, we tend to forget their need to also be able to give.

A community member and Father Nicolaie each reflect on their experience with an aspect of the Gospel story of the young man who was possessed.

Father Nicolai reflects on recent hopeful learnings in the community.

As we enter the Dormition fast, Martha reflects on her summer, motherhood, and our Most Holy Theotokos.

Martha looks back on 2011, remembering the many relationships she built through food.

the low-stakes internet mystery to identify the only unknown celebrity on a shower curtain pattern is solved after four years #

all of this year's XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #

they're asking people not to access NYT games or cooking apps until it's over, so give up that Wordle streak #

anything out of frame is immediately forgotten, making it very dream-like and surreal to explore #

inflation was a painful global phenomenon, and every ruling party was punished for it regardless of political leanings #

In the Gospel reading Christ even now stands in our midst to speak to our hearts.

It is easy to misinterpret Christianity as a religion like any other but Fr. Lawrence maintains it is unique.

Fr. Lawrence continues his series and examines the correlation in the Scriptures between that which is clean and that which is unclean.

We Christians share certain external similarities with the religions, but these external similarities can mask the inner meanings of the things we seem to share. In reality, everything in Christianity is different from the religions.

Fr. Lawrence Farley speaks at Daniel Chapel at Furman University on February 6, 2018. Fr. Farley explores the nature and end of humankind from an Eastern Orthodox Christian perspective.

In my Protestant days, I had no problem with anyone talking about Mary—so long as it was Christmas. On Boxing Day, that was it. Over. No more talking about Mary. What are we anyway, Catholics? It was understood that when we packed away the Nativity set, all talk of Mary got packed up along with it. And my proof that Bible-believing Christians should not talk about Mary? The New Testament never did. Well, hardly ever did—just long enough to narrate the Christmas story. Was she in the Acts of the Apostles? Not really. Was she in the Epistles? No. So there you go: no talking about Mary or calling her blessed.

The story of Cain and Abel is the story of the human race. It is tragically timeless, for it is tirelessly enacted over and over again in every generation. As Larry Norman once queried (as aged historians may remember from his song “Nothing Really Changes”), “Will Cain kill Abel—with a bayonet?” Regardless of the choice of weapon, somewhere and some place that murder is happening even now as you are reading this.

G. K. Chesterton wrote that he once left fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery and hadn’t found any books so sensible since (from his Orthodoxy, “The Ethics of Elfland”). I suggest that Christianity is one such fairy tale, and also that it is a myth. But it is a fairy tale come true, and a myth that became a fact.

Many people will (hopefully) identify the above quote as coming from the speech of Polonius in Act 1, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It was part of the fatherly talk he gave to his son Laertes before the boy moved away to university. It is now often quoted as a bit of perennial wisdom for life (it was written by Shakespeare, after all). It is not as often known that it was part of a speech that Shakespeare meant to be recognized as almost meaninglessly platitudinous, a kind of Elizabethan “blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada”.

Fr. Apostolos encourages us to let the light of Christ shine through us.