Orthodox Observer
September 1, 2016
Are you a good and faithful servant? As Orthodox Christians, we have been given a sacred trust. We have received the treasure of the Gospel – the Good News of Jesus Christ. With this sacred trust comes the great responsibility to share it. Read More
Center for Family Care
February 1, 2016
Family Gospel lessons from the Center for Family Care. Read More
Biblical Studies
August 17, 2015
The services of Holy Week transform us into eyewitnesses and direct participants in the awesome events of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In readings taken from both Old and New Testaments, in hymns, processions, and liturgical commemoration, we see the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies, and the mighty acts by which God Himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, grants us forgiveness for our sins, and rescues us from the pain of eternal death. Read More
Scripture
November 24, 2014
This Greek New Testament is the authorized 1904 text of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Read More
Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM)
August 28, 2014
How do Christ and the Church teach us to read the Bible? Here are three things you need to know! Read More
Audio
July 22, 2014
When I think of my father, I am reminded of the saying, “he didn’t tell me how to live, but rather showed me how to live.” Although I was only 16-years-old when he passed away suddenly, it was only in later years that i came to appreciate how profound an influence he had upon me. Read More
Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM)
April 10, 2014
The Cross was an instrument of death. How did it become an instrument of life? And what can that teach us about being the bee? Read More
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about the first epistle of St. John in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about Romans 8:31-39 in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about Luke 19:1-10 in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about Psalm 8 in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
GOTelecom
November 23, 2013
Learn about Orthodox teachings on the Old Testament. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
GOTelecom
November 23, 2013
Learn about Orthodox teachings on the New Testament. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
Archbishop Demetrios
September 25, 2013
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios' keynote address from the GOA Center for Family Care's 2013 Family Ministry Conference, "A Reflection on Ephesians 3:14-19". Read More
Theology
August 17, 2013
The first two chapters of the Book of Genesis present the making of humanity as an act in three steps or phases. The text is silent with respect to the time elapsed between these steps or if there was such a time between them. With any fragment or link of creation there was only one act or word of God. For instance, the Creator says in the first day, "Let it be light. And there was light" (Gen 1:3). Or in the second day, the same Creator utters the powerful word, "Let be a vault. And God made the vault" (Gen 1:6-7). Just one word or one-step act for each link of creation. Contrary to this pattern, in the case of humanity, God uses a different way, a creative act in three phases or steps. Read More
Theology
August 16, 2013
Any time I read Genesis (the Beginning's narrative), I am carried away to a place and time long lost, to a piece of land watered by four rivers, beyond millennia of intricate and not rarely bloody history, at the misty dawn of adam, the yet-to-be 'humanity'; to a place sheltered by cherubs with fiery ever-turning swords and jealously watched by a head talking serpent eager to turn his crafty monologue into a death-bringing dialogue. Read More
Biblical Studies
August 12, 2013
Fr. Pentiuc, scholar of the Old Testament and Semitic languages, looks at how the world "almah" is used in Isaiah. Read More
Theology
August 12, 2013
he Aramaic phrase Bar ’ěnoš “son of man” is a Semitic expression denoting a single member of humanity, a certain human being, hence “someone.” This Aramaic phrase used by Daniel 7:13-14 to describe a quasi divine figure riding with the clouds of the sky has become an important element of the eschatological-apocalyptic decorum in both Jewish and Christian texts Read More
Audio
May 21, 2013
People who live contradictory lives are not at all uncommon. We have all met them. They deride and trivialize the absolute and transcendent, while at the same time elevating the trivial and the superficial into absolutes. Read More
Exploring Orthodoxy / New to the Faith
November 2, 2012
What is the role of faith and works in the mystery of our salvation? What does Jesus say? What does St. Paul say? What do we teach about these issues as Orthodox Christians? Read More