Fr. Gregory gives the sermon on the Nativity of the Theotokos as we celebrate this first great feast of the new Church year.

Christ was born to save us, but what does that actually mean?

Fr. Gregory gives a tour through two of the lesser well known Archangels revealing some gems of insight concerning the brilliance of God in both healing power and enlightenment of mind.

Fr. Emmanuel gives the Holy Saturday homily.

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon for Sunday, May 6, 2018.

Fr. Gregory Hallam preaches on Sunday 27th May, Holy Pentecost.

After Fr. Gregory Hallam speaks to the children, Fr. Emmanuel Kahn reminds us of the words of St. Matthew: “The eye is the lamp of the body,”

Fr. Gregory Hallam and Fr. Emmanuel Kahn preach on the Conception of the Most HolyTheotokos by the Righteous Anna, as well as the life of the Prophetess Anna, mother of the Prophet Samuel.

Bobby Maddex interviews Katherine Hyde, author of Lucia, Saint of Light.

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick shares his hopes for the future of the Antiochian Archdiocese and Orthodoxy in America. The text version of this commentary can be found here.

Learn about a book series from Conciliar Press for children teaching them about Christ and the Theotokos in Old Testament stories.

Bobby Maddex interviews author Katherine Hyde about her recently released children's book Lucia, Saint of Light, published by Ancient Faith Publishing.

Priest and iconographer Fr. Jerome Sanderson speaks at the Second Annual St. Herman House - FOCUS Cleveland fundraiser, held on Monday, November 10, at St. Paul Greek Orthodox Church in North Royalton, Ohio.

"Bolivia, too, is undergoing a kind of disillusionment with democracy." How the rest of the world views this year's US election. / The Dial

See also: How British vernacular invaded America, or why everyone's saying "gutted" now. / The Guardian

More solar activity could again make the Northern Lights visible to more areas of the world this weekend. / BBC News

"A lot of people just said, 'This is too good to be true. This cannot be real.'" In early tests, visual therapy using flashing lights appears to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. / Nature

See also: Researchers find that, compared to viewing reproductions, experiencing art in person creates a 10-fold increase in people's emotional response. / Hyperallergic

"Not a single organism survived. This is unprecedented. It's Europe's first completely dead river." Ukraine accuses Russia of intentionally poisoning a river. / The Guardian

The US military has been updating various advanced weapons systems with gaming-style controllers. / WIRED

See also: The CIA is posting messages in Farsi, Mandarin, and Korean on social media and the dark web as part of an effort to recruit informants. / NBC News

This is a chilling development: By pairing Meta's smart glasses with facial recognition, Harvard students were able to instantly dox strangers on the street. / 404 Media

But at least the AI that Meta includes with the smart glasses seems incapable of deciphering much of what it sees, though it will confidently lie to you about it anyway. / Gizmodo

Parents of the surveillance era are facing the reality of having children away at college. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

"The emotions I feel for her are real." AI companions can be a lifeline for those who struggle with relationships. / Esquire

See also: Does anyone have time to be a good friend anymore? / Dazed

From initial novelty to immediate slop, the five qualities of every AI app. / Read Max

"Being online has always involved searching for the needles of 'real' content in a large and messy haystack of junk. But never has the hay been as convincingly disguised as needles." / The New Yorker

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For the first time in history, every incumbent party in a developed nation this year lost vote share in elections. / Financial Times

See also: A German far-right party won a regional election in September, which hasn't happened since the Nazi era—a result of 30 years of ignoring a lurking problem. / The Baffler

The good news is that the US political system is too complex for Trump to destroy it. The bad news is he's going to try anyway. / The Guardian

We blamed Facebook for Trump winning in 2016, so it tracks that we'd blame TikTok this time around—except the squirrel thing was not nothing. / Read Max

An explanation of 4B, the South Korean feminism movement that bans men, and that's been taking hold this week among American women. / Vox

"Ten percent of American workers today are union members, meaning that 90% of 'the working class' are not union members." To unfuck politics, create more union members. / How Things Work

Life after landing your dream job as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island, where your only company for a month at a time is a colony of penguins. / BBC News

See also: From an 1860 John Ruskin letter, "One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous, one can't be angry when one looks at a Penguin." / Instagram

An emperor penguin has arrived on the southern coast of Western Australia, the furthest north the species has ever been recorded. / ABC

Ten years after legislation to curtail stores' and restaurants' seafood mislabeling, an investigation finds 18% of salmon sold as wild is actually farmed. / Gizmodo

Unrelated: Webfishing, a game that combines fishing, relaxing, chatting, and little else, could not have come at a better moment. / VICE

Or if smashing fascists sounds more appealing, the allure of Wolfenstein remains. / Kotaku

See also: From 1941, "It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi." / Harper's

A vibrant journey through the colorful world of mushrooms, comprising more than 800 shades. / Mushroom Color Atlas

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Fr. Pat reflects upon the theme of revelatory light, particularly as Holy Scripture contrasts it with darkness.

The account of the man born blind serves as a narrative completion of the themes introduced on the night of Pascha. Fr. Pat preaches on the darkness of blindness and the True Light, which gives light to every man coming into the world.

On the Sunday after the Theophany, Fr. Pat preaches from Matthew 4:12-17.

We don't light candles in Church. Here's why.

"O Gregory the Miracle Worker, light of Orthodoxy, support and teacher of the Church, comeliness of Monastics, invincible defender of theologians, the pride of Thessalonica, and preacher of grace, intercede forever that our souls may be saved." (Apolytikion for the Sunday of Saint Gregory Palamas) Is it possible to know God? How could a perfect God have anything to do with His imperfection creation? These are some of the questions Saint Gregory Palamas faced in the 14th century. And they're questions the Church faces today. We dedicate the Second Sunday of Great Lent to this important saint because he taught an important theological truth that's at the core of the Christian life: That God is both knowable in His Energies and unknowable in His Essence. And this mystery is shown to us when Jesus heals the paralytic in Mark 2. As always, we've prepared a FREE downloadable workbook to help you act on what you'll learn: https://mailchi.mp/goarch/bethebee170

Let that great dark void in you be filled with Light

Just as the moon shines with the light of the sun so you should shine with the Light of the Son.

On this special episode of American Orthodox History, recorded at the first symposium on American Orthodox History at Princeton University, Matthew interviews Scott Kenworthy, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Miami of Ohio, about St. Tikhon, Enlightener of America.

Watch highlights as Connacht secure a convincing victory over Dragons in the United Rugby Championship.

Watch highlights as Ospreys earn a much-needed United Rugby Championship victory over Edinburgh in Bridgend.

Wigan Warriors become the first side in the Super League era to win all four trophies in a single season, beating Hull KR in a tight Grand Final at Old Trafford.

Get daily news, stats, fans views and punditry from your Premiership club, all in one place.

Newport County say new accounts will show the club has ended a run of financial losses previously described as "unsustainable".

Sandy Duthie from Aberdeenshire is now the lighthouse keeper on Gabo Island, in Victoria