Over time, these pancakes became the festival’s signature food. Known as a blini, or dense and yeasty buckwheat pancake, these buttery treats can be crowned with a variety of sweet or savory toppings ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Growing up a Southern Baptist in eastern Tennessee, Brent Gilbert says, he never realized there ...

Services to be held throughout the day.

A host of disputes – ranging from theological to political – have divided Orthodoxy from Catholicism for nearly 1,000 years. But while some leaders on both sides have tried to resolve them, fewer than ...

On September 5, Patriarch Porfiry of Belgrade, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, awarded the highest degree of the Order of Saint Sava (the Patriarchate’s highest chivalric order) to ...

On July 16, delegates to a special convention of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America met in Pittsburgh to adopt a constitution that will usher in a new era of self-rule.

This will interest about 15 of you. The rest have permission to pass on by. But I’m eager to hear from theologically educated readers on this point. If you’re a newcomer to Orthodox Christianity, one ...

Thirteen Seminars, attempting to answer “Why should I want to become an Orthodox Christian?” through the experience and life of the Church over 20 centuries, in accordance with the teaching of the ...

Orthodox Christians in Europe, Africa and the Middle East celebrated Orthodox Easter on Sunday. But for those living in Ukraine, the holiest day on the Christian calendar was muted by a withering ...