Category: Mission

Preaching Christ in a World That Doesn’t Need God: Orthodox Christianity and Secularism

· Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
The following is from a larger talk I am working on about Orthodoxy in the West. Secularism is essentially the idea that one can conceive of a world without God. It is the belief in an autonomous order existing apart from the divine order. It is not necessarily a denial of Godā€™s existence, by the way. Such outright atheism has never been that attractiveā€¦

“Off For More Adventures”: An Alaskan Family Connection

· Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
Last week, I had the great blessing to speak on St. Ignatius of Antioch (AUDIO) at the Eagle River Institute at St. John Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Eagle River, Alaska. Since it was my first time in Alaska, I prefaced my talks with the following notes, delivered on Saturday, August 1st. Before I begin speaking about one of my favorite subjects, St. Ignatius ofā€¦

From “Membership” to Ministry: Feeding the Five Thousand

· Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
Feast of St. Paraskeva / Eighth Sunday of Matthew, July 26, 2015 Galatians 3:23-4:5; Matthew 14:14-22 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. We are all familiar with this account from the Gospels of the Feeding of the Five Thousand. Though we read today from Matthew 14, thisā€¦

Do We Preach “Orthodoxy”… or Christ?

· Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
In her review of Kyriakos Markides’s Gifts of the Desert, Frederica Mathewes-Green says she had a hard time finding Jesus in the book: Markidesā€™ previous book, ā€œThe Mountain of Silenceā€ (2001), was read eagerly by those interested in Orthodox spirituality, chiefly because he had faithfully transcribed taped conversations with a monk trained on Mt. Athos, Father Maximos. Though Markides himself seemed not wholly onā€¦

Lenten Evangelism #8: Renunciation of the World and Evangelism

· Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
Sunday of St. John of the Ladder, March 22, 2015 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. What does a sixth century monk living on Mount Sinai have to teach us about evangelism? That is the question I asked as I pondered the continuation of our series onā€¦