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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.
Irina Akhundova
9/15/2014
Nominee for The First Nobel Peace Prize
Viktor Nemerovsky on Tsar Nicholas II as a Peacemaker Ahead of His Time
“I am Dostoyevsky, but a different kind”
A conversation with Dmitry Andreyevich Dostoyevsky, the writer’s great-grandson. Part 2
“The Dostoyevsky line continues”
A conversation with Dmitry Andreyevich Dostoyevsky, the writer’s great-grandson. Part 1
“I Haven’t Parted with Matronushka Since”
How St. Matrona Brought a Psychologist to the Church
The New Miracles of Elder Gabriel
For the fifth anniversary of the inclusion of St. Gabriel (Urgebadze) in the Russian Orthodox calendar
“Elder Gabriel Appeared to Me in a Dream”
A talk with Maria Pukhova, the author of the akathist hymn to St. Gabriel (Urgebadze)
"Rocks in a Sack," "Fast-paced Construction," and "The Empty Nest Syndrome"
Fr. Pavel Gumerov on the Three Critical Periods in Family Life
New material
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Archimandrite John Maitland Moir—His Life and Work
Gabriel Augustine Galeano
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About Those Who Deceive
Archpriest Viacheslav Reznikov
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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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