September 15, 2020 Prohibition Was Introduced in This Russian Monastery Village Kostylevo, Sverdlovsk region. Half a thousand kilometers to Yekaterinburg. A little more than 10 years ago, a monastery was established here — Kosminskaya…
September 6, 2020 French Actor Gerard Depardieu Converted to Orthodoxy Gerard Depardieu was baptized in the Russian St. Prince Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris. On September 4, 2020, Gerard Depardieu, the French actor, a…
August 30, 2020 Fr. Edward’s Path from Episcopalian to Orthodoxy It was easy to get from San Francisco to Berkeley, CA., by high-speed train. It took me half an hour to reach Ashby Station,…
July 27, 2020 “I Was Afraid to Tell My Jewish Father that We Were Baptized.” I was born in a Jewish family. My father was an Assistant Rabbi. We didn’t go to synagogue often, but celebrated the feast days…
May 5, 2020 Is Orthodoxy Light Over? One friend of mine, a bright man and a talented musician, while being healthy treated faith ironically, sometimes making vulgar jokes on a Christian…
May 5, 2020 God in the Life of Man One famous Soviet actor, summing up his life, described his greatest tragedy as follows, “I forgot God”. Surprisingly, in our time, even Christians do…
April 15, 2020 Barabbas: The “Savior” Chosen by the People We are free to change our decisions for as long as we are alive, and God humbly awaits while we make our minds. One…
April 13, 2020 Social vs. Spiritual Distancing At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the secular authorities have implemented “social distancing” as one of the crucial measures in the fight against…
April 7, 2020 Imitating St Mary of Egypt in the Loneliness of Our Homes What is a desert as understood by the Holy Fathers? How to preserve peace in the family during isolation? Why is any end a…
March 9, 2020 Little Alla And the Big Padlock: On the Modern Life of the St. Thecla-Holy Dormition Convent in Russia Having visited the Convent of St. Thecla and the Dormition, situated in the village of Senino not far from Optina Monastery in Russia’s Kaluga region, I was…
