We continue to present the last part of the interview that Father James Bernstein was willing to give exclusively to our magazine. This time also, Father James gives us uncomfortable answers to uncomfortable questions, answers meant to get us out of our self-sufficiency of “Orthodox by birth”. As a Jew with roots in Orthodox Mosaicism and...
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Father James Bernstein “We are in the midst of the post-Christian era”, it has been repeated to us since Nietzsche decreed or rather found that “God is dead”, rather in the human hearts. The post-Christian spirit enters boldly also among us, the Christians, in our communities, in our families, in our minds and hearts, every day and every moment...
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Father James Bernstein Is the Christianity of the Gospel today outdated? In our multicultural and transcultural world, it seems so. And if we, however, choose to remain Christians, many of us would prefer to be emancipated from the Orthodox „fundamentalism” of the Fathers, of the Holy Canons and the Tradition. In the core of the transcultural world, an...
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Father James Bernstein Are we still aware of the vivid relationship between Old and New Testament, of the inheritance of the revelations that we received through the Prophets from the God the Most High? Do we see the direct continuation of the Jewish worship of the Old Testament in the liturgical life of our Church? Do we realize that all this inestimable...
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Father James Bernstein was born in a formerly Hasidic Jewish family, originating from the Old City of Jerusalem. 16 years old, he began to read stealthily the New Testament in a version of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and thus he began his amazing journey to Christ, realizing that Christian Orthodoxy is the most natural continuation and fulfillment of the...
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Elder Cleopa of Romania Today we celebrate the feast of feasts and the holiday of holidays. Today there is spiritual joy throughout the entire Christian world. Today our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ has illumined everything through His Resurrection. Let heaven and earth rejoice together, and the earth be glad, because the light of the Resurrection of...
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