The Nativity Fast is quickly approaching. In America, it is very hard to follow the fast when everyone else anticipates Christmas with feasting. However, let us try to counteract culture and adopt the rhythm of the Orthodox church year into our celebrations of Christmas. We fast to prepare for our twelve days of feasting from [...]

 Generation Orthodox Podcast

This week on Generation Orthodox Podcast - Pastors Perspective

This week on Generation Orthodox, we start off with the evolution of social networking (Facebook rocks!) and talk a little about what we’ve been up to.  Marina is studying Russian and finally started reading Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.  Calee is going back to school and [...]

 

 Pastors Perspective - Generation Orthodox Podcast [72:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 This week on Journeys to Orthodoxy: Show host, Jacob Lee, interviews Shawn Wallace, an African-American jazz musician and Assistant Professor of Music at Ohio State University. Shawn grew up in a Charismatic Pentecostal home and attended a Word of Faith Church. When he was 20 years old, Shawn started a Bible study and street evangelism [...]

 

 Shawn Wallace - Jazz Musician Becomes an Orthodox Christian [71:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
How does the Old Testament and New Testament relate to each other in the Orthodox Church?  Is there a connection and continuity in worship in the area of hymns, icons, and other distinctives of Orthodoxy?  His Eminence discuses how God related to His people through the Old Testament record of the Tabernacle.
From Solomon’s temple to [...]