June 1, 2021 High Priests Ananias and Caiaphas: Arbiters in the Trial of God We are free to change our decisions, and God humbly waits for us to make up our minds, as long as we are still…
June 1, 2021 What Brings People to Choose Evil — Lessons from Nazi Germany World War 2 ended more than seventy years ago and seems to have been studied by historians in every detail. However, one key question…
May 6, 2021 Who Was Pontius Pilate? He is in the Bible and in secular literature. Mikhail Bulgakov depicts him in his famous novel “Master and Margarita” as a gentle and…
April 22, 2021 The Royal Isographers — Who Were These People, and What Did They Do? We asked this question to Dmitry Trofimov, director of the visual arts workshops “Tsargrad” The royal isographers were the icon copiers or icon painters…
April 21, 2021 Where Has the African Church Gone? The disappearance of the church in northwestern Africa (the Roman province called Africa Proconsularis) during the Arab conquests of the late 7th – early…
April 9, 2021 The Title Panel of the Holy Cross in Rome — a Relic or a Forgery? Historian Timothy Kitnis weighs the evidence on both sides The discovery of the Holy Life-bearing Cross took occurred in 326, when the Byzantine empress…
February 1, 2021 What is Paleh? Anatoly Vlezko, leader of the workshop “Palehsky Ikonostas”, answers. Paleh is an old Russian village, now an urban-type settlement in Ivanovo Region of Russia….
January 9, 2021 What Is the Meaning of Twelvetide, and How Should Be Celebrate It? The Nativity of Christ is the second most prominent feast in the Orthodox Church’s liturgical calendar after the Pascha, and as such, it is…
January 5, 2021 The Custom of the Christmas Tree For many people with a secular outlook, decorating the Christmas tree is the essence of Christmas. In Greece, this custom was imported from abroad…
December 2, 2020 In Search of Royal Presbyter John In the middle Ages, there was a sensational legend about the powerful Christian state existing in India and headed by Presbyter John. Information about…
