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"When I came to Russia in 1958, I could see that the Russia I had been reading about was still alive."
An interview with Dr. James H. Billington
Dr. James H. Billington, the distinguished scholar and Librarian of Congress, recently visited the Moscow Sretensky Monastery. We asked Dr. Billington about how he came to love Russia, about Christianity in America, and about his impressions of the Sretensky Monastery Choir and the book, Everyday Saints and Other Stories. -
Invisible Ascetics of the Bukovina Mountains
Part 1. Climbing Giumalau Mountains
The tradition of eremitic life in Romania has never been interrupted: it is still alive, and monks continue to struggle in gorges and precipices. -
Celebrating Thirty Years of Sretensky Monastery
A Photo Gallery
We present this chronological photo collection from the monastery's first days of rebuilding and renewal under the leadership of Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), to the present day. -
Super Jump—a Jump into the Abyss
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
“Super Jump” is not just a commercial pyramid selling a dubious method of personal success, but a networked neo-pagan sect with its own doctrine and cult practice. -
A “Mission Possible” to the Ancestors of the Magi: Orthodox Kurds and Other Iranian Peoples
Hieromonk Madai (Maamdi)
Today there are thousands of Christian Kurds and hundreds of Iranians who have converted to Orthodoxy on their own. It was from these new converts that the initiative to establish a mission began. -
Australia. Convent. Repentance
Abbess Maria (Miros)
Mother Maria was born in Australia and obtained a degree in medicine. But feeling a special call from God, she became a nun. We talked about the convent, choosing the monastic path, and repentance. -
Orthodoxy in India: Missionary Activity
Priest Clement Nehamaiyah (Nehemiah)
Indian culture appreciates deeds more than words, so preaching unsupported by deeds in India will not bear fruit and will not attract people’s hearts that way silent deeds can. -
The Church of Christ Cannot be Closed or Cancelled
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye
What options do the clergy and laity of our Church have after its ban? -
Ioan David, the Shepherd of God
Cristian Curte
All his life, brother Ioan was neither a priest nor a monk, but a simple shepherd.
Priest Roman Savchuk
6/6/2014
Why God Sometimes Fulfills Unprofitable Requests
Commemoration of the icon of the Mother of God “Of the Sign”
All the Best to God!
On the Feast of the Prophet Daniel and the Three Youths Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednago
Prayer as Part of the Work of Raising Children
A talk with Priest Anatoly Savchuk on overcoming parental despair
St. Alexander Nevsky: The Victory of Christ or a “Balance of Power”
To Convince by One's Life
On the Feast of the Finding of the Honorable Head of St. John the Baptist
A Just Injustice
Reflections on the Day of Holy Hierarch and Confessor Paul of Constantinople
Why we should not fear the end of the world, or What in actual fact brings us closer to destruction
Right-Believing Prince Daniel of Moscow: “God Has Not Forgotten Me”
On How Missionary Strength is Made Perfect in Weakness
From the History of the Japanese Mission
On Actuality and Reality (for the commemoration of St. Anthony the Great)
St. Spyridon of Tremithius and the Light of Virtue
St. Silouan of Mt. Athos: “I have many sorrows of my own, and they are my own fault…”
New material
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The Power of the Divine Word
St. Innocent of Kherson
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Joseph the Fair and Christian Paradigms
Metropolitan Serafim (Joanta)
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He Was Lost, and Is Found (Lk. 15:24)
Hierodeacon Daniel (Sikoev)
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Meeting the Lord in His Holy Church
A Homily for Palm Sunday
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A Glimpse of Pascha
Homily on Lazarus Saturday
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The Red Thread Delusion
Artemy Slezkin
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On Humility in Prayer
Conversation on Repentance and Prayer, Part 4
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To Each His Own Way
About the life of Alexander Krainev, the wanderer from Vologda
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On the Proper Approach to Prayer
Conversation on Repentance and Prayer, Part 3
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On Confession
Conversation on Repentance and Prayer, Part 2
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