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Ok. I made something the past couple of days. It is written in C, which is probably a stupid choice of language for the project, but it was really more of a "learn C" project than a "do things sensibly" project. Anyway, basically, it is a commandline program, which I know compiles and runs...

What do people who work nightshifts do about morning and evening prayers? Cuz at least the ones I have are very tied in to their relation to sleep...

Either here on perhaps on another forum, someone mentioning a group of Dominicans who went to the East to convert the Orthodox but got converted themselves? I think the context was someone explaining that not all monks wear black (apparently this group having been given a blessing to wear the...

I read a lot of stories about saints lives, and most of the ones I have read they started out already with such goodness. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to stories of saints that started out as serious sinners? Has someone who used to be a murderer (apart from St. Paul) ever become a...

Catholics don't really believe that Mary didn't have a biological father do they? Someone told me that that is what is meant by her immaculate conception - one that she didn't have a biological father and two that she was not the product of intercourse... are they misinformed?

I have done a lot of very very wrong things in my life. I continue to do wrong things, although not things that strike me as dangerous or as outwardly harmful as some of my past deeds, still reminders of my brokenness. One of the things more and more I regret about not being a Christian is that...

At the moment I am trying to work out which Church I should seek admission to, the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church. Anyway, I know it is going to take me ages, I know these things take time, I know I can't react to every whim and sentiment because they will contradict each other as time...

If a human is very sick, then it is very controversial, even if they are suffering a lot, to kill them, even if they give consent to be killed or actively desire it. (For the record I am opposed to Euthanasia). Yet when an animal is in the same position, we will kill the animal often. Now, if...

This has probably come up before, but I was not smart enough to find it. I am pretty much a firm believer in Evolution. You couldn't convince me it didn't happen without effectively discrediting science altogether. So that brings me to a bit of a dilemma. Because I absolutely believe in the...

Do the Orthodox say that the existence of God can be known by natural reason alone?

I got given a couple of cards when I went for the first time to the Orthodox Church near here. I only have half an hour left online, so I am not going to copy out every one of them with character map right now but just one of them, the others later (although one has LOADS of writing on the...

This is not a new phenomenon or anything, but, every other moment (lol!) I will think something really arrogant, about what I understand, or what I feel, or what I am like or all that kind of thing. And before I can do anything about it, I am feeling happy and impressed with myself. And then I...

Before I sought to become a Christian, I believed in God. I believed in God as truth, I believed in God the "all-penetrating light", I believed in God the "eternal good". I believed that every truly good action in some mysterious way united itself with God via His nature as the eternal God, and...

It seems to me political power is generally corrupting of people (that is, a saint may be able to avoid such corruption but your average person is likely to succumb to it) for a couple of reasons: 1) Power is addictive, when you have it you want to hang onto it and as you get used to wielding it...

For a month maybe I have been thinking of starting a project of trying to assimilate a "sense" of Lev Shestov (basically reading everything of his I can get my hands on so as to feel like I know him as a writer). My initial investigations brought up some interesting stuff, but I still have only...

Today I read two articles. One is by a Catholic who's blog I regularly read and enjoy: Losing and gaining our religion Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity The other was on a website sent to me by someone from the Orthodox Church in Lampeter: To convert or not to convert? The quotes...

What questions would you recommend someone who knows nothing about Orthodoxy ask to learn more about it? (If you answer the questions too that would be awesome, two birds one stone :p)

:cry: I tried three times to bring the Easter fire home to light my candles with. The last time I brought two candles incase one went out. But it was too windy. I have a burned hand from sheilding it and no fire. I kind of hoped it would resurrect itself like Christ but no that proved to be a...

If so what happened? If not, how historically and presently have bishops etc been elected?

What are your favorite prayers?