Sergei Mudrov
I really hope that despite all the global cataclysms, the community will remain in its current composition, with people of different nationalities—Russians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Greeks and Romanians.
Metropolitan Antony (Pakanich)
God is not mocked. The saints are above all the blasphemies committed against their relics.
Although times and answers cannot always be the same and methods may be different, the spirit that describes them must always remain the same – love for God and for all people, whoever they may be.
“It’s so glorious how the God shines within this one particular area,” said the Rev. John Sorochka, now rector emeritus.
Nadezhda Muravyova
Not much time had passed since that incident, when I found myself back at the Kazan railway station. I found the place where he had touched my shoulder. As for the underpass, it wasn’t there!
Antiochian Greek Orthodox Christians say that they are trapped in Syria with no way to defend themselves.
Did USAID sponsor anti-Orthodox persecution in Ukraine?
Elena Dragunova
Back at the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, the mission of the travelling clergy suffered serious losses and sorrows. The priests performed true feats without pride or vanity, devoting their lives to converting thousands of natives to the faith of Christ.
It is not the promised land but deserted, with nomadic herds of wild goats freely breeding in the valley of the great Amur River. This land has its own history. It’s not rich, but very edifying.
Has the Church compromised her boundaries? Where does salvation lie, and how should we engage with Evangelicals, Protestants of all stripes, and Roman Catholics?
Archpriest Valentin Asmus
Here, the self-awareness of Byzantium is briefly expressed—a consciousness of the great responsibility of universal service. This service was not to the state, nor to a people or peoples, but to God, to Christ’s truth and righteousness.
We discuss how believers lived during the Soviet era with Mitred Archpriest Valentin Asmus, rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Krasnoye Selo, and Doctor of Theology.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
In 2022, when the fifteenth anniversary of the reunification approached, I decided to talk with people who participated in the process and combine their memories in a book.
2024 can be remembered by many as a year of Christian suffering.
Sednaya’s historic monastery lights up with a towering tree, bringing joy to a city scarred by more than a decade of war.
Matthew Namee
Lately, a meme has been circulating online, claiming that the number of Orthodox Christians in America has grown from 700,000 to six million in just four years, 2020 to 2024. This is a complete fiction – but it has quite a history.
On Monday, November 18, 2024, the feast day of Holy Confessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the burial of Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid-America took place at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
I ask everyone not to dance to someone’s pipe, not to be pharisees, to not give our enemies yet another excuse to mock our Mother-Church.
Orthodox Ethos has published a clip from the upcoming documentary “Christianities? Journey to the Heart of the Faith,” featuring journalist Tucker Carlson describing a harrowing spiritual experience he recently had.
Using Ukraine as an example, the Phanar is implementing a strategy of union that may later be applied on a broader level.
