July 23, 2021 «Prayer Is the Most Awesome Thing in the World» — Selected Quotes from the Actor Piotr Mamonov On 15 July, the Russian actor Piotr Mamonov departed to God at seventy years of age. As a tribute to this outstanding actor, we…
January 28, 2021 David, God’s beloved David comes from India, and he lives there. He used to be a Hindu, like most people in his country. After many sorrows, he…
June 18, 2020 I Question My Salvation In a conversation with a protestant who had some knowledge of Orthodoxy, he asked me if I was saved? In fact he wondered if…
January 9, 2020 “In the First Months of Rehab, I Didn’t Believe I’d Ever Get Over It”: The Story of a Drug Addict Who Made It Through Nikita Sychev is 35 years old. He was born and raised in Moscow. Up until 18, he was an ordinary guy with no taste…
May 28, 2019 “I Used to Think that Russia Sucks and that It Is Too Backward”: American on His Life in Moscow, Baptism, and Russian Hospitality Matthew decided to leave the US when he was 18. He didn’t have any objective reasons for his decision, “I just couldn’t see my…
March 8, 2019 Why Grumbling Diminishes All Your Patience Have you noticed how often we find ourselves grumbling about this or that? It seems that it is our nature to complain about…
March 6, 2019 On the Question of the Seven Deadly Sins, Part 2 Why Seven Sins? It’s entirely arbitrary. We could list 1 or 7 or 107. The 1 sin would be Pride, which is usually (not…
March 5, 2019 The Visitor of St. Elisabeth Convent Tells About Orthodoxy in China Most of us think of China as the land of the Great Wall, Confucius, Communism, gunpowder, sky lanterns, dragons, hieroglyphs, cheap goods, rice, and…
March 4, 2019 On the Question of the Seven Deadly Sins Sin I think we Orthodox don’t talk enough about sin. Really – how many of our people actually go to Confession? And when we…
March 3, 2019 A Homily for the Sunday of the Last Judgment 1 Corinthians 8:9-9:2 Matthew 25:31-46 I would like for us all to think for a moment about what actions on our part could separate…
