Olga Lunkova
Rating: 7|Votes: 3
I would like to open one of the little-known pages of the book of the imperial Romanov family, and to remember its last legitimate male line descendant, who spent almost all her life in the USSR (as a class enemy) and post-Soviet Russia.
Kostas Nousis
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
It is obvious and well enough known, in any case, that the Church preceded the Scriptures, since it already existed, living in its own Tradition, when it established the canonical books, with all that involves. What, then, are the Scriptures? To put it simply, a written part of the total God-inspired Tradition of the Church.
Deborah Sengupta Stith
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Justin Marler’s spiritual path moves with the motion of a mandala, sweeping through a series of elaborate and oddly beautiful curves, spiraling back upon itself. In 1991, he walked away from a promising musical career with doom-metal band Sleep and, after a few months of soul searching, entered an Eastern Orthodox monastery near his hometown in Chico, Calif. While Sleep started a musical journey with surprising longevity — the band almost sold out ACL Live last year — Marler spent seven years living an ascetic life of prayer, meditation and hard labor in service of Christ.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
At a certain point in history, people began to be told that they could take charge of history; they could change the world and make it a better place.
The sole inhabitant of the village, she is one of about 100 older people, mostly women, still living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone — 1,000 square miles of Ukraine that were evacuated in 1986 after a catastrophic accident at a nuclear power plant.