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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. -
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.
Ryan Hunter
9/8/2015
Profound examples of holiness: the Royal Martyrs in their own words and through the words of those who knew them
Orthodox Spirituality: The centrality of the Holy Spirit and the necessity of Philanthropia
Why Orthodoxy? Part 9
Papal Infallibility: A distortional innovation and an affront to the conciliarity of the Church
Why Orthodoxy? Part 8
First experience of Orthodoxy: the Liturgy—Transcendent, Enveloping Beauty
Why Orthodoxy? Part 2
Col. Philip Ludwell III: The Forerunner of Orthodoxy in North America
To know Orthodoxy is to Know Russia
A superb essay on U.S. and U.K. media’s ongoing Russophobia by Catherine Brown
A short history of Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow
New material
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The Stern Warning of the Prophet Isaiah
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
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St. Eudokia of Heliopolis: a Path from Sin to Sanctity
Elena Detinina
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On Humility, Non-Condemnation, and Social Media
Bishop Joseph (Korolev)
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St. Stephan of Fileika on Prayer
Extracts from His Works
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The Most Soul-Profiting Services of Lent, Which Most Parishioners Don’t Attend—and It’s the Fault of Us, the Priests
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov)
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Strive to Know the Truth of God, Part 2
St. Gabriel of Imereti
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A Pilgrimage to Lindesfarne
Photogallery
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Is Christianity Compatible with Communism? Dialogues with a Marxist-Leninist Christian Student
Reader John (Amir) Azarvan, Ph.D.
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Strive to Know the Truth of God, Part 1
From the Homilies of St. Gabriel of Imereti
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On Bodily Fasting
St. John of Kronstadt
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