Author: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

The Very Rev. Archpriest Andrew Stephen Damick is Chief Content Officer of Ancient Faith Ministries, former pastor (2009-2020) of St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and author of The Lord of Spirits, Arise, O God, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Bearing God and An Introduction to God. He is co-host of the following podcasts: The Lord of Spirits (with Fr. Stephen De Young), The Areopagus (with Michael Landsman), and Amon Sûl (with Richard Rohlin). He is also host of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Orthodox Engagement, and Roads from Emmaus. With Richard Rohlin he is collaborating on the major documentary series The Wolf and the Cross. You can follow him on Facebook, Telegram and Instagram.

A Pentecost of Fire: On the Current Violence in America

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I really don’t have the qualifications to speak about the death of George Floyd and what has now followed it, and perhaps many of you do not, either. But no matter what our backgrounds or credibility regarding the specific problems before us, these are things we all can do.

The Glory of God in the Raising of Tabitha of Joppa

May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Whatever good that we see, whatever love that we receive, whatever grace has been given, no matter where or in whom or through whom—these are all from Jesus Christ.

Christ is Risen! Shouldn’t Troubles Be Over?

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I’ve had more than one person say to me over the past couple weeks: “With Pascha here, I feel like COVID-19 should be over.” Shouldn’t this thing be over now? Christ is risen, you know.

Hades is Embittered

April 18, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I have been criticized a number of times recently because my approach to this pandemic has not been “How do we keep doing business as usual in face of all these obstacles?” but rather “Given that we have this problem, what do we do in the midst of it?” To me, though, the question is whether I believe this present state of things is given to me for my salvation.

This Holy Week is Not Okay

April 14, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

This is a moment for grieving, for deep repentance. It is not okay. Do not try to make it okay. That does not mean that we have to go around depressed, angry, etc. But it does mean that this is a moment for grief.

Seeds for a Church: The Three Martyrs of Vilnius

April 14, 2020April 14, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Having an ethnic heritage that was not actually passed down to me as an inheritance seems like another exercise in that odd, defamiliarized life that Third Culture Kids can never quite escape. And what’s more, being an Orthodox Christian has in many ways felt like an exercise in the same narrative. A people who were not my own have become my people.

Prepare Now to Return to Church

March 22, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

What I do affects who I am and what I believe, especially when it is something I do over and over. It is my habits, my repeated actions, that influence how I see the world and who I am.

The Holy One and His Holy Ones

March 15, 2020March 13, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

At the end of time, when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride forth, bringing famine, pestilence, war and death upon mankind, God will send forth His holy ones to match them and to overcome them.

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