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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. -
"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.
Stepan Ignashev
5/28/2019
“We expect to hear a TV announcement that,
curiously enough, we are still alive”
A word from Kosovo and Metohija
There Is No Resurrection Without Death, or Why the Serbs Aren’t Afraid to Be Joyful
Archimandrite Damjan (Cvetkovic): “Thanks for Your Frankness, Guys, But We Are Going Different Ways”
“Only Christ will never betray us”
Kosovo Serbs talk about their life at home and in comfortable but foreign lands
The Losers
A conversation with an Arkhangelsk councilman about healthy protest against despondency, and how Russian citizens are rediscovering Russia
How the Future Patriarch Pavle Repaired a Path, and What Came of It
From reminiscences of Archimandrite Jovan (Radosavljevic) (+2021)
And now let’s have a look at the infamous James Bond monastery!
Sorrowful travel notes from Meteora, Greece
“Now I’ll definitely never leave Kosovo!”
On the specifics of the celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo Polje
Prayer as Part of the Work of Raising Children
A talk with Priest Anatoly Savchuk on overcoming parental despair
“Better with the Devil Than with the Serbs and Their Church”
Sad Observations About the Macedonian Schism
“People Are Tired of Rational Christianity—There Is No Joyful Mystery in It”
A talk with the Finnish Doctor of Theology, Hannu Pöyhönen
“Their Memory Cannot Be Erased, for They Were Faithful to Christ”
A talk with Priest Andrei Lebedev, a member of the Commission for the Canonization of Saints of the Vyatka Diocese
The Most Important Questions
A Finnish professor of theology shares his reflections on the Heavenly Kingdom
“A World Without God Is an Incomplete Picture”
A Talk With the Russian Artist Vladimir Fedukov
Photographer William Brumfield: “I want to show the heavenly light that I see in your churches”
When Hatred Is Useful
A talk with the Finnish Doctor of Theology Hannu Pöyhönen
New material
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Gogol’s Religious Views in His Book
Maria Tobolova
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Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria
Elena Detinina
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Orthodoxy in Dagestan
Ariadna Nefedkina
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A World Filled With Silence
About Yuri Orlov’s art
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The Fourth Sunday of Great Lent. St. John Climacus
Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
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The Thorny Path of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod
Elena Detinina
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“Both Life and Death Are Mysteries”
Archbishop Theodosius (Bilchenko)
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“Both Life and Death Are Mysteries”
Part 2. The fear of death
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The Relics of Saint Benedict of Nursia—A Sacred Treasure of the Benediktbeuern Monastery in Bavaria
Anatoly Kholodiuk
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“Growing up, he only dreamed about killing or poisoning his father”
About revenge, earthly life, and eternity
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