Talks

The Challenge of Saint Symeon the New Theologian

Hierodeacon Samuel

HOCNA Clergy Synaxis, 2013

Human Language and Divine Revelation: On the Theological Nominalism of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) and Fr. John Romanides

Hierodeacon Samuel

HOCNA Clergy Synaxis,  2014

Catholicity of the Local Church

Hierodeacon Samuel

HOCNA Clergy Synaxis, 2015

Why Autocephaly?

Hierodeacon Samuel

HOCNA Clergy Synaxis,  2016

OUR LORD FROM WHOM SEVEN LIGHTS OF SEVEN SPIRITS SHONE
The Seven-Branched Lampstand as a Symbol of Christ
Presbyter Mark Beesley
HOCNA Clergy Synaxis,  2017

"THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM" 

An Orthodox Basis for Sacred Place

Presbyter Mark Beesley
HOCNA Clergy Synaxis, 2018

The Mystery of Christ and the Mysteries of the Church
Hierodeacon Samuel
Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Youth Camp, 2019

"LOVE UNFEIGNED" 

The Mystagogy of the Crucifixion in the Gospel of St John

Presbyter Mark Beesley
HOCNA Clergy Synaxis,  2021

How (and Why) to Read the Holy Scriptures

Hierodeacon Samuel

Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Youth Camp, 2022

“What If It’s Really True?” The Consequences of Belief

Hierodeacon Samuel

Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Youth Camp, 2023

What Does it Mean to Bear One’s Cross?

Hierodeacon Samuel

Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Youth Camp, 2024

Made, Not Born:

The Catechumenate in the Early Church and Today

Hierodeacon Samuel

HOCNA Clergy Synaxis, 2024

“Let Us Attend”:

Paying Attention in a World of Distraction

Hierodeacon Samuel

Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Youth Camp, 2025

The Real and the Virtual:

Orthodoxy Online and “Online Orthodoxy”

Hierodeacon Samuel

HOCNA Clergy Synaxis, 2025