Rating: 10|Votes: 25

There used to be simplicity and love, and that’s why there were elders

Reminiscences of the ninety-two-year-old father-confessor of the Kiev Caves Lavra

Archimandrite Avraamy (Kuyava), Valentina Serikova

Fr. Avraamy saw the generation of the Kiev Caves elders who had been called to monastic life before the Revolution and who preserved the living tradition of spiritual continuity from ancient times. He absorbed their spirit, their zeal for God, their strength of faith, simplicity and Christian love.

Rating: 9.4|Votes: 39

Myths about the Byzantine Empire

On the Church, the state and emperor, the inner world of the Rhomaioi, wealth and piety, and Russia as the Byzantine Empire’s successor

Pavel Kuzenkov, Yuri Pushchaev

Myths and misconceptions about the Byzantine Empire (of which Russia is believed by many to be the spiritual and political successor) abound.

Rating: 8.2|Votes: 26

“Painful Points” of Nicholas II’s Reign: Truth and Fiction

Yuri Pushchaev, Theodore Gaida

Was Emperor Nicholas II a weak-willed ruler who led Russia to a revolutionary catastrophe? Who was guilty in the shooting on January 9, 1905 and the Khodynka tragedy?

Rating: 9.6|Votes: 20

84,000 signatures gathered for revival of Moscow monastery destroyed by communists

The community of the Moscow Strastnoy (Passion) Monastery held a festive prayer meeting at Pushkin Square on Tuesday, and a procession around the historical territory of the Strastnoy Monastery, destroyed by the atheist soviets in 1937.

Rating: 8.8|Votes: 60

Sola Scriptura

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Now however, among most Evangelical Protestants, the phrase “sola Scriptura” has come to mean something rather different—and something that their Reformed ancestors would not have been happy with.