• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Which are the characteristic features of the virtuous wife in the Bible? Do they change over time? What does the virtue of the wife give her husband? What is the reason that the Bible doesn't have a description of the virtuous husband but has one for the virtuous wife? Why is the one who was called "the blessed among women" considered the criterion for a virtuous woman? Can a wife who lost her virtue regain it?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

What is the traditional Armenian family like? What was its predecessor, the patriarchal family, like? What relations were there between elder and younger members of family, man and woman, father and son, mother and daughter? What rules of Christian conduct did the traditional Armenian family have, and what edifying lessons can it offer to contemporary families?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Why are most tragic and intolerant human relations in the history those between fathers and sons, becoming a serious theme in literature? Nietzsche developed an entire theory on this topic. What Biblical examples do we have for these relations? If there is Christian atmosphere in a family, is it possible that children educated and raised in this environment would later become a shame for their parents? What educates children in the family and bonds them with warm family ties, and what alienates children from their families and makes them disrespectful toward family?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Mustn't we first find out what marital fidelity is if we want to find out what marital infidelity is? What components does it have? Doesn't "fides" ("faith") lie in the basis of this word? Can the couples united in spiritual union be unfaithful to each other in body? Why do some differentiate spiritual and bodily infidelities?

What is repentance as a spiritual reality? What is the ratio between sin and repentance? Is it possible to repent fully without awareness of one's own sins? Did Cain and Judas repent? What produces repentance, and what are its consequences and fruits?

• Fr. Mikayel Nurijanyan

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Is the perception of the Christian model of family subject to time-related change? Should family members have relation with each other on the basis of superiority of rights or exerting the free law of love? Why do the hearts that were once close to each other become alienated? Must interference with family relations be used and if so, who must interfere?

We know from the Bible that God is all in all. How to understand this? The Lord said that our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit, while the human being shares God's image and likeness. Does this mean where there is a human, there is also God, regardless of the condition of that human? How to understand which of our actions are led by God and which are not led by Him?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

Are there standards that we could consider to be indicators of the true Christian life and could decide accordingly whether we live that true Christian life or not? Why do unbelievers react to Christians' shortcomings and wrong behavior so actively? What to do so that Christ may not be discredited because of His followers?

• Fr. Ghazar Petrosyan

Why did the Lord harden the Law by considering the verbal offense against brothers equal to murder? Are "neighbor" and "brother" synonymous in the Gospel? Who is the neighbor and who is the brother? Who is the neighbor and who is the enemy? Which virtues are demonstrated in brotherly love? Must Christians be reconciled with everybody or only with them who do the word of God? What is the difference between brothers in flesh and in spirit?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

In this broadcast from the series dedicated to the Cross, we read and discuss the most unclear parts of St. Ephrem the Syrian's Praise to the Holy God-Bearing Cross that need additional explanation.

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What election is the election of the cross? Does it have its alternative? Does the cross choose us or do we choose it? What is the way of the cross? How to recognize our cross?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why has never anybody managed to bypass sadness? What condition of soul is it and what is the difference between God-pleasing and God-resisting types of sadness? Why does the sadness required by God lead to repentance while the sadness coming from the world, to death?

Why doesn’t Bible mention anything about the birth of the Virgin Mary and about her parents? Why was Mary born of a barren woman whom the Lord wished to grant a child after many years? What did that birth give to the humanity? What example is the life of the Lord’s Mother for Christian women? Is the birth of any human as important to God as was the birth of the Holy Virgin?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why did Jesus revealed His divinity through transfiguration, and why did this happen only in front of three disciples? Why did Elijah and Moses appear before Him and how did the disciples of Jesus recognize them? Can transfiguration happen not only to Jesus but also to Christians that walk the road of holiness? How to transfigure the old man inside us to become sons of God?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

• Fr. Ghazar Petrosyan

On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came down, and as a result, the Church was established. Did also the gifts of the Holy Spirit rest on the believers and started to act on that day, or had they already acted before that? When are the gifts of the Holy Spirit actively distributed, and can a human being hinder that distribution? Are all the gifts of the Holy Spirit equally important, or is there hierarchy? Can one person have all the gifts of the Holy Spirit?

Why did God destroy only Sodom and Gomorrah, if the whole world was in sin and abomination? Why do people have the unnatural desire of homosexuality? What was the attitude of the ancient world toward homosexuality, and what is it in the modern world? What attitude should Christians have toward this phenomenon as citizens of countries that have legalized it?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Christianity is often accused of being a non-practical teaching and religion. It is difficult to understand what we as Christians must do, which Christian commandment we must observe, to conform to Christianity in different cases. How reasoned are these concerns? Practical life supposes areas of practice. Is there an area where it is possible to act as a non-Christian? How must Christians demonstrate themselves in practical life?

• Fr. Arnak Harutyunyan

Why did God consider the wisdom of this world foolishness and why did He choose those for accomplishment of His plan who were considered fools by this world? Why do those that are deemed wise and intelligent in this world accept divine mysteries with great difficulty? What does hinder them from becoming receptive? How to empty oneself of the wisdom of this world to be filled with divine wisdom?

Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Today, in the era of freedom of conscience and religion, the repentance of a whole nation, its conversion to the Christian religion from the king to peasants, from princes to ordinary soldiers, seems to be incomprehensible and false. How was the conversion of a whole nation into Christianity possible in the 4th century in spite of being surrounded with powerful states having other religions? Why did the Only Begotten hit the Araratian soil with a hammer and announce the start of building of Holy Etchmiadzin? What was that rich soil on which the Cathedral was built?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why did Jesus say to the apostles that if He did not go, the Comforter, that is, the Holy Spirit, would not be able to come? What additional things was the Holy Spirit to do on the Earth that had not been done by the Son? Jesus said to Nicodemus that what is born of the Spirit is spirit and what is born of the flesh is flesh and offered him to be born again, that is, to be born of the Holy Spirit. How to understand this? What was the function of the Holy Spirit in this case, and what are the functions of the Holy Spirit generally?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why did Jesus say to the apostles that if He did not go, the Comforter, that is, the Holy Spirit, would not be able to come? What additional things was the Holy Spirit to do on the Earth that had not been done by the Son? Jesus said to Nicodemus that what is born of the Spirit is spirit and what is born of the flesh is flesh and offered him to be born again, that is, to be born of the Holy Spirit. How to understand this? What was the function of the Holy Spirit in this case, and what are the functions of the Holy Spirit generally?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is holiness? Holiness and perfection are synonyms. When the Lord said, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," what level of holiness and perfection did He mean? How to attain holiness? What are its levels?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is holiness? Holiness and perfection are synonyms. When the Lord said, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," what level of holiness and perfection did He mean? How to attain holiness? What are its levels?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

It is often emphasized that Christianity is a revelational religion. Does it mean that God reveals Himself to us? But what does God reveal of Himself to us which we would not know if He did not reveal it? Is not God's natural law written in our conscience? Then what is the need to reveal additional things? By what means can God reveal Himself to humans?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan