What do we need to do in order to walk the Way and allow others to eat the breadcrumbs that fall from our table?

We often hear stories from the Desert Fathers and think of them as sayings from the past. But, we are also given the opportunity to live the sort of lives they lived and grow as we walk the Way.

As many of you probably know, one of the most famous Orthodox theologians of the 20th century was Fr. Alexander Schmemann. He was dean of the seminary I went to (St. Vladimir’s), and his life’s work was to teach about

This week, the Nativity Fast began for Orthodox Christians around the world. This 40-day period, is a time in which we prepare for the Nativity of our Lord according to the flesh. But, as we watch our diets and take

If I were to ask you what feast Christians celebrate on January 6th, what would you say?  It probably depends on which Christian tradition you were brought up in. If you are a western Christian, you’d probably say “Epiphany.” But,

In the Gospel of John, we hear the story of Jesus meeting a Samaritan woman at a well. Most sermons focus on the foreignness of the Samaritan woman: her identity as a “Samaritan” is contrasted with Jesus’s identity as a

One motif that appears over and over again in the Bible is the image of the barren woman.  All the matriarchs of Genesis had problems having children: Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel; and
 the motif appears again in the New Testament:

If you could go back in time and speak with a 1st-century Roman about crucifixion and how the empire used them, what would they say?
 They might say that “… By [the cross] barbarian nations are subdued, by it the scepters of kings

One of the first type-scenes, or conventions, in scripture that we’re going to look at is Annunciations. “Annunciation” is a Latin word that essentially means, “announcement.”  But, for the original biblical readers, what would they have expected when an announcement