Christianity - it is a faith in which humanity is not abandoned, but redeemed. Where creation can participate in and point to realities greater than itself—to things unseen. Human beings understand this almost innately. We preserve the belongings of those we have lost. We lift up that which we honor. We treat an ordinary piece of wood differently from a cross. The composition of the material thing is never all that we see, nor is it all that there is. For Orthodox Christians,

Harrowing of Hades Icon I often think back to when I was an inquirer into Eastern Orthodoxy, reading Rev. Michael Shanbour’s chapter on...

I distinctly remember reading articles in 2017 when Hank Hanegraaff (also known as The Bible Answer Man ), joined the Eastern Orthodox...