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An Orthodox Perspective on the Da Vinci Code
Archpriest Nicholas
Lecture 10 from the 2004 Youth Conference
As Orthodox Christians, why would we bother worrying about, or even reviewing, a novel? In the 21st century, we are living in the post-Christian era. This does not mean that Society now considers Christianity redundant and outmoded, supplanted by modern philosophy and science, and even by new theology – end of story. This may well be the case, but it is not sufficient; Christianity must now be attacked and ‘proved’ wrong. How? (more…)
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The Nature of the Soul
Priest David Moser
Lecture 11 from the 2004 Youth Conference
What is a soul? You know we talk a lot about the soul, but did you ever stop and try to figure out what it is we’re talking about? We talk about saving the soul, but what is it that we’re saving. Earlier we talked about some of the theories developed by psychologists that try to describe the inner workings of the person, and probably that is the closest secular description of the soul, but even psychology doesn’t fully grasp what the soul is. (more…)
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Orthodox Latvia : St John of Riga
Presented by Protodeacon Basil Yakimov
Author Unknown
Lecture 8 from the 2004 Youth Conference
Janis (John) Pommer was born to a peasant family in the district of Vendzen, Latvia in 1876. He had no Russian blood, even though he later showed a great love for Russia. His great-grandfather had been one of the first to accept the Orthodox Faith in this region, and as a result he had been subjected to severe persecution.
At that time there was a great interest in Orthodoxy among the peasants of Lithlandia, thanks to the preaching which had been begun in the Latvian language. (more…)
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Identity and Intimacy
Priest David Moser
Lecture 5 from the 2004 Youth Conference
About 7 times a minute in Australia, as well as in the US a great miracle occurs, a child is born. From the moment of his birth each child begins to be shaped by his interaction with the world around him. At the very beginning, the child knows nothing of the world around him and he begins to figure out what the nature of this world is. (more…)
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The Protection of the Mother of God: In History, and In our Lives
Priest James Carles
Lecture 1 from the 2004 Youth Conference
Vladika, Fathers, Brothers & Sisters:
My talk to you this morning is about ‘The Protection of the Mother of God: In History and In Our Lives’. In it I want to do two things. The first is to show what an active, life-and-history-changing help the Mother of God is to us. (more…)
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St John of San Francisco and Shanghai, An Apostle to the World from the Russian Church
Priest David Moser
Lecture 2 from the 2004 Youth Conference
How many here think that in the years to come you will be married? How many will be a monastic? How many of you think you will be a priest, or the wife of a priest? How many of you think you will be an archimandrite, abbot or abbess of a monastery? How many of you think that you might even be a bishop?
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