Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
In consumerist consciousness man is the consumer, God is the service provider, the Church is the company providing these services; faith, the sacraments, and prayers are means.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
Olga Stefanova is a documentary filmmaker, the author of several films and a book about Antarctica. Olga spoke about her journeys to the continent and shared the details of life in such extreme conditions.
Orthodox Christian Prison Ministries knows the unique challenges of prison ministry that keep us from following Christ’s commandment.
Elena Kucherenko
During the eight years I’ve been a mother to a special needs child, I arrived at an amazing conclusion. It is the church-going people who take the birth of a disabled child most heavily.
Epstein Island and the series “Westworld” are two faces of the same reality, two symptoms of a single spiritual illness, the name of which is self-deification.
Nun Kallista (Golik)
Interestingly, in Greece, Small Compline is included in prayer books as the evening prayer rule, so it’s quite common and familiar to everyone. The Russian tradition doesn’t have Small Compline in its prayer books, but you can find it in the Horologion.
Alexander Mosyakin
Marx invented a certain special “Slavic race” forming around the “Russian race,” striving for world domination, which opposes the civilized European peoples (“Germano-Romanic race”) and with which Europe must wage merciless war.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Fr. Joseph Gleason is an Orthodox priest from rural Illinois who moved with his wife and eight children to Rostov the Great, Russia. How has his family adapted, what is it like for them in Russia, and what he would advise others who are contemplating a similar relocation—these are the topics of our conversation.
Irina Krikheli
Once, over twenty years ago, an ordinary little mouse saved my life on the feast of Holy Theophany.
Dmitry Zlodorev
Many young Americans are searching for guidance and sanity in an increasingly chaotic world. By God’s grace, they discover the Orthodox Church—a place that is not afraid to speak the truth. And they are drawn to it.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
Photographer Dmitry Kiryukhin once again took a walk through the center of Moscow at Christmastime—even more beautiful than last year.
“Ruthless struggle not for life, but to death with the Slavdom treacherous to the revolution… —exterminatory war and unrestrained terror.”
Marx and Engels were European “thinkers” who fiercely hated Russia and the Russian people, and along with them all Slavs.
May we all enter the New Year with firm faith that God’s truth will prevail, and that even the deepest wounds can be healed—if only we desire this and pray for it.
Deacon Dionisy Akhalashvili
Сelebrating the New Year according to the secular calendar, if one does not approach it with excessive zeal, does not really interfere with the ordinary Orthodox rhythm of life.
After one email and warning from the Society of St. John, Forbes changed the headline of its article. After a second email, Forbes took the article down completely.
It was just remarkable to see so many different people celebrating the Birth of Christ together. We had a unique experience that I don’t think I’ve ever come close to before. And I don’t have words to describe how special it was. It was just really, really wonderful.
Elena Nasledysheva
Illnesses connected with damage to the brain are unequivocally not a direct consequence of sin.
Any technology is subject to moral evaluation: does it destroy human dignity, substitute living relations, or infringe on the freedom of the personality?
Ekaterina Kharchenko
For someone who had spent decades dependent on alcohol and drugs, sobriety felt like landing on a strange planet.
