October 18, 2020 121 0 Why Politicians Fail So Often The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 6:31-36 The gospel of Jesus Christ always amazes us with it’s brutal simplicity. The…
October 10, 2020 144 0 Bells of the Holy Danilov Monastery in Moscow Bells have been used In the Christian tradition since the fourth century. For ages bell-ringing has been a way to gather believers in the…
October 8, 2020 659 0 The Shape of Things to Come These “forerunners” of the Antichrist also direct that world-wide process which the Apostle St. Paul called “apostasy” (II Thess. 2:3). The essence of this…
September 29, 2020 1415 0 We Are Scared of the Virus! But Wait, Did Christ Ever Try to Avoid Death? Is a Christian obligated to face any danger openly and always be ready for death? Is dodging danger always betrayal of the faith? With…
September 29, 2020 248 2 Meanness Is in the Mainstream These Days “Speed is the curse of the century,” Evgeny Yevtushenko* wrote in the 1960s. Indeed, every epoch has its own defining problem that, although it…
September 22, 2020 731 8 Can a Christian Be Tolerant? Q: To what extent can a Christian be tolerant and can a Christian be tolerant in general? A: It should be noted that the…
September 15, 2020 571 1 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 8, 2020 509 0 Church of Christ the Saviour at Chora Monastery Ultimately Became a Mosque Six months after the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, the Chora monastery with the Cathedral of Christ the Savior became the…
September 7, 2020 299 0 Why Sin Is Not A Moral Problem Many readers have never before heard that there is no such thing as moral progress – so I am not surprised that I have…
September 6, 2020 1119 1 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…