Eastern Orthodox Christian Forum

I thought that getting drunk was not only a sin but a fairly serious sin. Even so, there are a number of Orthodox on YouTube who sometimes get drunk and it doesn't seem to worry them.

Am I perhaps wrong that getting drunk is a serious sin? Is the...

Can an Orthodox Christian ask for intercessory prayer from a saint belonging to the Catholic denomination? Or would doing so be considered a sin? :unknown:

Besides the blessed Theotokos, do you have a favorite Orthodox saint? Or a patron saint for which you have a particular devotion? :Search:

I was born in Belarus. Currently live at East coast of America. What about you?

I have not had Communion nor have I attended services since 2007 when ROCOR united with Moscow.
ROCA was my church who baptized me 70 years ago.
To this day, all the 921 splinter groups are still bad mouthing each other making it impossible for me...

Can you recommend me any novels that are somehow related to Orthodoxy? I enjoy reading literature and I am particularly fond of Christian novels, but so far I have found mostly fiction based on or related to Evangelical and Catholic Christianity.

I'm adding some screenshots of functionality below. Couldn't add a video as platform doesn't allow it.

Screenshots of Orthodox Calendar mobile app (development WIP v0.2.0):
Screenshot 1. Orthodox Calendar mobile app
Screenshot 2. Orthodox...

My partner of four years is having doubts about me –when I rang him he didn’t want a lift home and he is trying to avoid me. he also said stuff like why have a girlfriend for or get married they just end up taking your money in the end anyhow. My...

Russian Historian Andrei Zubov on the new church of the Armed Forces, celebrating and iconising the leaders of Communism and its modern political and religious offspring:

“I looked at mosaics from the church of the Armed Forces of Russia - Putin,...

Greetings,
I would like to request prayer for healing. I will be going for surgery soon. Thank you.
Rena