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My Father recently offered me a position in a Protestant drug rehabilitation center in WV as an intern. While I know I can't really take a role in a place whose beliefs I don't share, it got me looking into similar work. I was suprised to find only one or two similar places in the country while...

*Warning, mature subjects* I just wanted to give you guys an update since I left the forums in a rather bad place of mind. I've been doing much better and actually getting back on my feet. God has saved me multiple times lately showing me his love and forgiveness. Only recently I was locked up...

Hello TAW, This is more a formality than anything else but I regret to inform you all that I will no longer be active on this forum as I have pretty much left the church. As some of you long timers know I have had many difficulties along the road to Christianity, but now I feel I no longer...

The Founder of Ukrainian Nationalist Schismatics - self-declared "Patriarch of Kiev Philaret" Denisenko who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church after failing to become the Patriarch of Moscow in 1991, was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992 and put under anathema, and...

I can't seem to find any kind of updates on the current status of the schism. Does anyone know what is going on? Are there any plans for talks or a synod? I was hoping this schism would be about as short as the 96' MP-EP schism but clearly it will not be.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I have noticed a growing trend in posts attempting to stir animosity against CF members of other faiths. While I believe it is fine to defend Orthodoxy when it is attacked in other posts, I do not see the point of constantly trying to create controversial...

I'm not a republican, I didn't vote for Trump, but I never thought I'd see Cruz as someone I liked listening to.

What is you guy's favorite Athonite monastery? And if you are a male, which would you be willing to spend your life in? Post favorite pictures and Icon's from it if you have them. Also do you think there is a possibility of there being a future English speaking skete there? My personal...

I'm usually pretty picky about confessing within a few weeks of communing, or weekly if possible. However after I wrecked my car and came back from the monastery I haven't been back to my parish. I haven't been to communion or confession in at least 5 months and I'd like to commune this...

I can't seem to find any updates on the current crisis. How long do you guys think it will take to resolve this? Until Patriarch Bartholomew reposes? I would really hate to have to pick a side in this whole thing because my parish is on the opposite side of the one I would pick. I do realize...

Does anyone know what the small cast Icon/statue used during the Russian tradition Dormition service is called? I would like to have one made for a monastery but need to know the name It looks like this except is smaller (4-5 inches long) and usually held on a plate for veneration after the...

Hey guys. I just recently got back from Hermitage of the Holy Cross Monastery after living there for four months. I agreed to return in discussion with the Abbot over my mental health issues and we agreed I should seek treatment back home. I don't know If I will choose to go back but I would...

You are all heretics, why? I'll tell you why- Because most of you do not venerate the holiest object in all of Christendom:

I'm sure this has been brought up before, but what do you guys think about western rite liturgy? Is it legitimate? Does it bring division? Is it something we should incorporate in the western Orthodox Church to more extent? How will this work in a United American Orthodox Church? Let's talk...

So I was trying to study today, and quite a predicament came up. You see I just had all my wisdom teeth taken out and am in quite alot of discomfort. I am only allowed to eat certain foods. This got me thinking about the problem of evil, and God's creation. The question I have for you all is...

Hello TAW! As some of you know I have only short time left before I leave for Hermitage of the Holy Cross. But at the recommendation of my priest I have decided to write a persuasive theological letter to my family about why I left the Baptist Church, why I converted to Orthodoxy, and so forth...

If you haven't been introduced to him he is quite good :)

This thread is for Orthodox, though Eastern Catholics and Oriental may also feel free to input. My question is this: I've heard the phrase "all those who have been baptized in the church have been saved". Yet at the same time the Orthodox idea of salvation is theosis, progressive change to...

Why can't all parishes have such choirs? [0:27:42] The Cherubic Hymn [0:36:03] The Litany of Supplication