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Before Constantine’s Edict of Toleration in 314 A.D., confessing the Christian faith was nothing less than social, cultural, religious and literal suicide. You certainly did not “get ahead in life” by becoming a Christian. On the contrary, you pretty much guaranteed that your property and goods would be confiscated, and that you would meet a painful end through a variety of gruesome means. With the conversion to Christianity of the highest authority in the known world, the situation took an abrupt about-face. Now, conversion to Christianity was fashionable, the thing to do if you wa...
“The blood of Christians is the seed of the Church.” It’s a shocking and perhaps even offensive statement by Tertullian (c. 155-220 A.D.), one of the early Church fathers. The whole idea of . . .
In all of this, I hope to save myself from having to answer the inevitable question when I introduce myself as an Orthodox priest: “Orthodox what?” So, here’s the beginning of that story. In the early first century, a man named Jesus was crucified under the Roman authorities. V. Rev. Richard René is the priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas Orthodox Mission (orthodoxkamloops.ca), an English-language Eastern Orthodox Church for the Kamloops community. Shortly afterwards, his followers began to claim he had risen from the dead and that all should believe in him as the Son of God and be ...