Lydia Konstantinovna Pavlova
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 3
How can we greet these festive days with dignity, as an Orthodox Christian should? Our inner state should be love and gratefulness. We should be thankful to the Lord that we have lived through yet another year; thank God with hope that the next year would bring us joy, hope, and love.
Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910), the author of such masterpieces as “Demon and Swan Princess,” is probably one of the most tragic figures among famous Russian painters.
Rating: 9|Votes: 1
An evangelical Christian points out that there is, in fact, a tension between orthodox Christianity and homosexuality. Saying otherwise robs American society of an honest debate about how to reconcile sexual tolerance with religious tolerance.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 23
When they finally started their exciting, but extremely difficult, ascent, everything went just fine for a few days. But at the end of one day, on a narrow path, they met an old, strange-looking man in a long dark robe. He was walking in the opposite direction, down the mountain. In a friendly manner he greeted them and advised them to turn around and return to the base camp as quickly as possible because the weather was changing into a severe storm.
A stripped-down, subdued celebration has taken hold in the typhoon-battered regions of the Philippines