Table of Contents
Sources 7
Introduction 9
1 Faith in the Gospel 29
Finding Faith 30
Doubt 35
Creative Doubt 36
Humility and Reading the Gospels 44
Living the Gospel 46
Practical Christianity — Death and Bereavement 47
Humility 54
Bringing Faith to the World 56
Orthodoxy 58
2 Creation 70
Healing 79
Genesis 83
The Creation of Woman 86
3 Prayer 92
The Absence of God 94
Discipleship 102
An Exercise 107
Despair and Prayer 110
The Mother of God in Prayer 112
Intercession 114
Prayer Answered and Unanswered 114
Miracles 115
Prayer for the Dead 116
Unanswered Prayer 118
4 Orthodox Spirituality 121
The Holy Spirit 125
Asceticism 131
The Jesus Prayer 134
5 The Church 138
the Nature of the Church 138
The Church and the Eucharist 143
The Structures of the Church 144
The Orthodox Diaspora 149
The Church in Russia 150
The Meaning of Tradition 152
Women in the Church 153
6 Lent, Holy Week, and Easter 156
Judgment: Two Parables 160
Forgiveness 162
Forgiveness Sunday 166
St. Gregory Palamas Sunday 168
Sunday of the Cross 169
Palm Sunday and Holy Week 171
The Resurrection and the Cross 175
Good Friday 179
Easter 185
Easter Sermon 186
Epilogue 187
Permissions 189
