The last few hundred years have witnessed remarkable and far-reaching advances in science and technology. The very fact that I am writing - typing, that is - these words on a device that can hold millions of bytes of information and that they will reach you through a process involving dissemination via the internet are just two aspects of this growth. We’ve come a long way, baby! Of course, nothing comes without a price. And one of the changes that has come about as a result

We live in strange days, brothers and sisters. I’m not talking about gay marriage, abortion, and the decline of “traditional morality”. I’m talking about Christianity. What passes for Christianity today is, if you’ll forgive my bluntness, a mockery of the Gospel of Christ. Claiming to be followers of Jesus, most people make no attempt to actually read the Gospels which contain His commandments and teachings, not to mention trying to keep those commandments. In what purport to

Friends, Friends, the following is an excerpt from a homily of St Gregory Palamas on the Precious and Life-giving Cross in anticipation of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross this Tuesday. With love in Christ, Fr John [T]he word of the Cross (cf. 1 Cor. 1:18)…was and is…a great and truly divine mystery, not only in the time of the prophets before it was accomplished, but also now after it has been fulfilled. Why is this so? On the face of it, anyone who lowers and humble