Day: November 3, 2016
An Open Letter to Archons “The Defenders of the Faith”
As an Archon, you have taken a sworn oath “to defend and promote the Greek Orthodox faith and tradition…[and] protect and promote the Holy Patriarchate and its mission.” Are you sure that the faith proclaimed by Patriarch Bartholomew is the faith you have sworn to defend?
December 3, 2016 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Ecumenism
How Patriarch Bartholomew is walking away from Christ
Should Patriarch Bartholomew “walk together” with other religions or make disciples of them for the Lord? It’s one or the other. Here is our “play-by-play” commentary on a statement the Patriarch released at the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi.
December 2, 2016 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Ecumenism
Mocking our Lord: Commemorating Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
By Archimandrite Maximos Karavas. How does God tolerate a blasphemer and heresiarch, called “the one who is rightly proclaiming the word of Truth” and does not send down fire to burn us—both those who commemorate him, and us who hear these words and do not protest?!
November 3, 2016 by Orthodox Witness
Ecumenism
Did Christ Have a Fallen Human Nature – Part 6 of 8
Indeed an extraordinary Being requires an extraordinary conception and birth! A Protestant may believe whatever s/he wants, but to be Orthodox a Christian must believe in the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ and the ever-virginity of the most holy Theotokos (Mother of God).
September 9, 2016 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Christology
Deliver us “from evil” or “from the evil one”? The last word of the Lord’s Prayer
Evil or “the evil one”? We’ll look at why an incorrect translation endorsed by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and other Orthodox jurisdictions is used in our churches today.
June 23, 2016 by Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Ecumenism