Editor's note: This part 1 of an opinion series on churches of Orthodoxy. Look for part 2: "The shape of American Orthodoxy in 2040" next week. For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was ...

As a journalist, it’s easy to turn around copy on any of the public policy and political debates of the day, but I struggle to write about religious issues in a meaningful way. My American Spectator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many new converts are discovering Eastern Orthodoxy online. But church leaders say the ancient Christian faith is meant to be ...

Thomas Oden is an optimist. He is confident that a spiritual awakening is taking place within the so-called mainline denominations; a renaissance of orthodox Christian doctrine and traditional ...

As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from ...

Ancient orthodoxy insists that God is not subject to emotional whims. Doesn’t wake up on the wrong side of the bed some mornings. No mood swings. But anyone who has read through the scriptures ...