Love your enemies. 2 Corinthians 6:16 - 7:1, Luke 6:31 - 36.

2 Corinthians 9: 6- 11, Luke 7: 11-16. St. Luke and St Paul have views on this.

Revealed in him. Galatians 1: 11- 19, Luke 8: 26 - 39 (There's often a mistranslation in Galatians 1: 16. It often says God the Father revealed His Son "to" St. Paul, but it really says "in" St Paul.)

So what is the right question, and what is the right answer? 2 Corinthians 9: 6- 11, Luke 10: 25 - 37.

Ephesians 2: 14 - 22, Luke 12: 16 - 21

Stand and fight! Ephesians 6:10 - 17, Luke 13: 10 - 17

In a world full of sin - what are we to celebrate?

Galatians 4: 4 - 7, Matthew 2: 1 - 12

Bearing witness to Christ. John 1: 29 - 34

Repent. Ephesians 4: 7 - 13, Matthew 4: 12 - 17

1 Timothy 4: 9 - 15, Luke 19: 1- 10 The Lord has found you.

2 Corinthians 6:1-10, Matthew 25: 14-30 A wasted life.

2 Corinthians 6: 16- 7:1, Matthew 15:21-28. You get the whole loaf.

Luke 18:10-14 The Pharisee and the Publican.

You are a child of God! Sunday of the Prodigal Son.

Jesus Christ Hidden in Plain Sight. Did you notice Him? How did you treat Him? Perhaps you were too busy praying? Sunday of the Last Judgement. 1 Corinthians 8: 8 - 9:2, Matthew 25: 31 - 46

Great Lent. Romans 13: 11 - 14: 4, Matthew 6: 14- 21 Cheesefare Sunday - Forgiveness Sunday

"Follow me!" says the Lord. First Sunday in Great Lent, Sunday of Orthodoxy. HEBREWS 11:24-26, 32-40 JOHN 1:43-51

Second Sunday in Great Lent. The Sunday of the Paralysed Man. Hebrews 1:10-2:3, Mark 2:1-12

Sunday of the Holy Cross. Mark 8:34-38; 9:1

Hebrews 9:11-14, Mark 10:32-45. Heavenly and Earthly Desire.

Philippians 4:4-9, John 12: 1-18. What does real spirituality look like?

Acts 6:1-7, Mark 15:43-16:8 The witnesses of the ladies: they saw NOTHING at all...

Acts 9: 32-42, John 5:1-15 . No excuses, leave the past, stand.

Acts 11: 19 -30, John 4:5-42 The worst of the worst.

Acts 20:16-18,28-26, John 17:1-13 Knowing about God, Knowing God.

This week's episode features a speech that Matthew delivered at the 16th Annual Ancient Christianity and African-American Conference on Fr. Raphael Morgan: America's first black Orthodox priest. Click here for supplemental material related to this episode.

This week's episode features a speech that Matthew delivered at the 2009 St. Vladimir's Seminary Summer Conference on the myth of past unity in American Orthodox history. Click here for supplemental material related to this episode.

Matthew tells us about an interesting and colorful character from the late 1800's in American Orthodox history. Learn more HERE.

Matthew introduces us to the most outlandish figure in the history of Orthodoxy in America. Learn more HERE.

Matthew discusses the careers of Nicholas Bjerring (1870) and James Chrystal (1868), the first two convert priests in American Orthodox history. Learn more HERE.

Matthew interviews Fr. John Erickson, the preeminent historian of American Orthodoxy, about one of the past attempts at Orthodox administrative unity. Learn more HERE.

Matthew continues his discussion with Fr. John Erickson about one of the past attempts at Orthodox administrative unity. Learn more HERE.

Matthew interviews Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Associate Director of the Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas, about another of the past attempts at Orthodox administrative unity. Learn more HERE.

Matthew interviews historian Fr. Oliver Herbel about a little-known—though very important—1940s precursor to SCOBA. Learn more HERE.

Matthew interviews Nicholas Chapman, the Managing Director of Orthodox Christian Books, about an 18th-century Orthodox convert from Virginia named Philip Ludwell III. Ludwell gave George Washington his commission in the army and was a cousin of George's wife Martha. Learn more HERE and HERE.

Matthew looks at a few of the ways in which Theophany has been celebrated throughout American Orthodox History. Learn more HERE and HERE.

Matthew recounts the first of many scandals that have rocked the St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral in San Francisco and then explains why knowledge of such scandals is important. Learn more HERE.

Matthew recounts another tragedy affecting the St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral in San Francisco. Learn more HERE.

Matthew tells the story of Metropolitan Antony Bashir on the 44th anniversary of his death. Learn more HERE.

Matthew introduces us to one of the most prominent females in early American Orthodox history. Learn more HERE.

Matthew tells the story of his favorite figure in American Orthodox History, a fiery Greek Orthodox priest from Philadelphia named Fr. Demetrios Petrides. Learn more HERE.

After explaining why the past five attempts to achieve administrative unity in America have failed, Matthew tells us why the sixth attempt, which takes place this coming May 26th-28th, has a very good chance of succeeding.

Matthew speaks at the Fortieth Biennial Clergy Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in Atlanta, Georgia.

On this special episode of American Orthodox History, recorded at the first symposium on American Orthodox History at Princeton University, Matthew interviews Scott Kenworthy, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Miami of Ohio, about St. Tikhon, Enlightener of America.

On this special episode of American Orthodox History, recorded at the first symposium on American Orthodox History at Princeton University, Matthew interviews Samuel Noble, a doctoral candidate at Yale University who has been translating from Arabic the homilies of St. Raphael Hawaweeny.

Matthew recounts the story of Fr. Kallinikos Delveis, the first priest of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in New York.

Matthew discusses Archbishop Arseny of Winnipeg, the first Orthodox chapel in Oregon, the first All-American Sobor, the funeral of St. Raphael Hawaweeny, and the life of the early Greek priest Fr. Kallinikos Kanellas.

Matthew discusses Philip Ludwell III, St. Alexis Toth, Archimandrite Theoclitos Triantafilides, and others.