New Review of Ancient Christian Wisdom and Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy

As some of you may remember, I was very involved in helping Father Alexis Trader promote his new book, Ancient Christian Wisdom and Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy. I just became aware of another review of his book, posted on the Eighth Day Books blog. From the review: [I]t may be one of the most solid…

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Christ is Risen! (And…Mount Athos on 60 Minutes!)

Christ is Risen! ——————————– Apparently, on Pascha Sunday at 7pm EDT, the CBS program 60 Minutes will run a 2-segment piece featuring some of the monasteries of Mount Athos. For those not able to watch or record it at that time, or those outside the US, it will be posted on the 60 Minutes website…

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Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) Speaks at Wheaton College

On February 21st, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) spoke at Wheaton College, a guest of The Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies. The topic of his Eminence’s talk was “Orthodox-Evangelical Dialogue: What Have We to Learn from One Another?” The lecture is quite long, and you’ll probably want to skip the first five or ten minutes of…

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Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev’s St. Matthew’s Passion in NYC, 02/07/11

[If you are going to be at the concert and would like to write a review of it afterward, please let me know! I would love to post a review of the concert!] YONKERS, NY [SVOTS Communications] — The English-language US premiere of the St. Matthew Passion by the renowned Russian Orthodox composer and churchman,…

Newspaper Article on Orthodoxy (& Troy Polamalu)

Please forgive a post on a football player. As most of you probably already know, Troy Polamalu is not your average football player. He is Orthodox and unapologetically so. Even better, however, is that nearly every article I’ve read written on Polamalu and his faith reflects a real humility and a spiritual focus. Polamalu, while…

Turkey Offers Citizenship to Orthodox Bishops

Turkey has made a remarkable policy change by offering citizenship to Orthodox bishops not born in Turkey. Among the many crises the Ecumenical Patriarchate faces, one of them is the decreasing number of Turkish-born candidates for the position of Patriarch. Turkey requires that the Ecumenical Patriarch be a Turkish citizen, which up until now more…