Rating: 6,5|Votes: 2
The new project makes lectures of SVOTS professors and teachers such as Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Fr. John Meyendorff, and Fr. Thomas Hopko available in digital for the first time.
Fr. Eugen Tanasescu
Rating: 7,4|Votes: 16
The Holy Scripture states unequivocally: homosexuality is a sin. That does not imply that he who sins is lost. On the contrary, the Church detests the sin, but loves the sinners and saves them by their correction.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 67
If a respected author writes for a publication whose known purpose is the promotion of a particular agenda, then by that very act he lends credence and credibility to that agenda.
Dr. David C. Ford
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 52
From the point of view of consistency within the Tradition through the ages, it's inconceivable that the Orthodox Church as a whole would ever endorse sodomy – or any other form of same-sex sexual activity – as an acceptable practice, as something consistent with the quest for holiness and purity in spirit, soul, and body which her members have always preached and endeavored to practice.
Vasiliy Shchipkov
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 12
The multiplicity of connotations to the word Russians is evidence not of the weakness of Russian identity, but of the diversity of forces that are fighting for the right to interpret it.
Archpriest Alexander Abramov
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 21
—In such cases I always ask the following question: who asked them to do it? Where are the thousands or millions of people who are going to worship there? Who are the authors of this initiative?
Jean-Claude Larchet
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 93
Whatever the external factors might have been that could have played a role in the collapse of Catholicism (modern attitudes, social pressure, etc.), the internal factors are what appear to be decisive according to the author of this book.
Rating: 10|Votes: 17
At its session on May 25 at the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church adopted an address to the bishops, clergy, monastics, and laity regarding the initiative for “providing a tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.”
Archpriest Nicholai Balashov
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 12
Is there today a commonly accepted procedure for granting church independence – autocephaly and what does canon law say about this mechanism? – a detailed explanation given by the vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov.
Aleksei Solonitsyn
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 16
Services at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist were closely tied to the Eastern Rite, and pilgrims from Russia suggested to Brother Basile more than once that he should become Orthodox. And he thought much about that.
Yuri Pushchaev, Michael Khasminsky
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 15
We talked with Michael Khasminsky, Director of the Center for Crisis Psychology at the Patriarchal Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Moscow, on why fake news about the Church are in high demand among some mass media.
Priest Yaroslav Dragun
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 30
“Don’t worry,” his confessor comforted him. “Do this: at your ordination, when the bishop places his hand on your head with the prayer invoking the Holy Spirit—at that moment ask God for everything you want that is spiritual and beneficial; and believe that it will all come true. Don’t doubt it".
Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 9
Xenia Ryabova, five times Paralympic dressage champion, was born with cerebral palsy. Xenia has told me the story of her life which, in my opinion, can be regarded as a modern equivalent of “the story of a real man”.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 18
You wouldn’t suspect that the jovial Orthodox priest who carries the gold chalise with such reverence from behind the iconostasis of “Mother of Unexpected Joy” church was once a drug dealing, rambling hippie and coffee-house owner with his own underground band.
Priest Sergei Begiyan
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 20
Indeed all the canonized righteous people make up only one percent of the total number of saints at most. And it is not because the righteous are few in number.
Rating: 9|Votes: 86
The Russian multimedia project “Russian Roads” www.rusroads.com was created to provide a picture of the Russian land—its nature, culture, and history; its past and its present.
Patriarch Irinej of Serbia
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 16
His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia speaks in a homily about how the Church has overcome the threat of godless communism by the grace of the Holy Spirit, entering a new period of flourishing.
Tamar Lomidze
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 13
On November 16, 2017 the self-proclaimed “Patriarch” Philaret (Denisenko) of Kiev and all Rus’-Ukraine wrote a letter of reconciliation and restoration of communion to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). But two weeks later he denied any apologies or formal unity with the ROC. So why then did he write that ambiguous letter?
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 31
Some people in particular are distressed when they see in Christian writers anything polemical or negative. Why, they ask, do these Christian writers have to denounce certain trends and ideas?
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 45
Is there any problem with being pro-life and supporting the death penalty? I didn't think so, until a conversation years ago got me thinking.
