Questions and Answers

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) answers this question from an Orthodox point of view.

In hymns we sing, “Most holy Theotokos, save us.” Why does the Church ask a human to “save us”?

Above: Detail from an icon in the third-century Jewish synagogue at Dura Europos, Syria, showing Mordecai being brought before King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther. by

Why does Christ seem so disrespectful to his mother? In the Gospel, Christ calls his mother “Woman,” and answers her, “What have I to do

The icon of the Resurrection in our Church is the Descent of Christ into Hades…

What is the Orthodox Church? Can anyone go to an Orthodox Church? Father Andrew Stephen Damick takes two minutes to answer some common questions and

The promises made to Abraham were always for his believing descendants.

We were recently asked: Doesn’t the Bible say all Christians are priests? Then why does Orthodoxy have a separate class of people called priests? And