Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church

Orthodox Christianity in Columbus, GA

The Most Important Question

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In the graceful encounter of theology and psychology, Fr. Stephen Muse guides us, weaving through his personal narrative, an opus of Orthodox tradition. His testimony witnesses of Christ’s glory, attests to the luminous lives of the saints, echoed through the centuries. His faith resonates with the profound proclamation—Christ’s journey through … [Read more...]

Lessons I Learned Living with Elder Ephraim

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  Papa Ephraim of Alaska On December 19th following Divine Liturgy, we will host Papa Ephraim, the spiritual father of St Nilus Skete, in Kodiak, Alaska. Papa Ephraim is a graduate of MIT and lived for three years on Mount Athos, in the Monastery of Philotheou under the guidance of Elder Ephraim, one of St. Joseph the Hesychast’s five … [Read more...]

Joyful Abandon

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The Apostle John relates [Jn 19:30] that on the Cross, Jesus bowed his head and said it is finished.” St John Chrysostom points out that there is a small easily overlooked detail of great significance here. Jesus bows his head before he dies. Normally, one dies first and then the head bows without volition.  St John notes that Jesus offers his life … [Read more...]

God’s Doorknocker

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A whisper was heard in heaven, “We need a doorknocker!” What could this mean? It was a mystery hidden from all eternity, unknown even to the Angels, but Isaiah, the youngest of all the Seraphim, began to wonder… The Gospel and Divine Liturgy are presented faithfully in a fresh and imaginative way through the eyes of an angel and the love of a … [Read more...]

What Must I Do to Feel Alive?

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In the search to feel alive and at peace with life and one another, contemporary post-modern digital culture has given rise to some strange contradictions. People are lonelier while having more and more digital “friends” on Facebook. At odds with and dissociated from our physical bodies, there is an increasing preoccupation with constructing a … [Read more...]

You Don’t See Me

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After 38 years of invisibility in a well-travelled area of Jerusalem where people passed daily, Jesus noticed one particular man among the many “invalid, blind, lame and paralyzed” huddled in the five porticoes around the Sheep Gate. The action throughout the Gospel of John unfolds in the context of six Jewish feasts in Jerusalem, beginning with … [Read more...]

Send That Annoying Foreigner Away!

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Early in his ministry, Jesus sent the Apostles out two-by-two with instructions to “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” They were instructed to preach repentance saying “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand; heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and cast … [Read more...]

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