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The Macho Approach to Christ

05 March 2011

Sitting at LAX some weeks ago and waiting for my flight to depart, I was looking through my old briefcase. Unexpectedly, I found an old copy of USA Today I had tucked into a side pocket and forgotten

What’s Worse Than a Church Without a Web Site?

05 March 2011

If a congregation wants to attract visitors through its web presence, that site must be as well planned and carefully done as any other public presentation of the congregation. In fact, given the ...

Praying for Those Who Wander Lost

05 November 2010

What does the Orthodox Church say about the verse “If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give life to him, for those whose sin is not unto death. There ...

Rememebering names

Rememebering names

30 October 2010

Russians have commemorated the victims of Stalin-era political repressions in the Soviet Union

A. I. Sidorov on Theology and Patristics

16 October 2010

I think in general that the notion of theologian is a great title. It is no accident that in our Church it has been conferred to all of three saints. For me the true theologians are men of prayer, ...

Gianna Jensenn: I was born alive during a saline abortion

28 September 2010

To everyone’s great shock and surprise I did not arrive dead but alive. What’s fantastic about this, about the perfect timing of my arrival is that the abortionist was not on duty yet, so he was not ...

Where Can One Go in an Orthodox Church A Brief Discussion of Holy Space

11 August 2010

In our modern society, we tend always to see things subjectively and self-centerdly; we are trained from childhood to do this. We therefore think of our rights, and when we meet something like the ...

Day of the Prophet Elijah in Moscow

03 August 2010

Mass festivities on the occasion of Day of the Prophet Elijah have begun in Red Square in Moscow Monday. The festivities are timed to coincide with Paratroopers' Day celebrated on August 2 as ...

Time in Icon

20 July 2010

To be able to understand icons it is necessary to know how people of the Middle Ages perceived and understood the concept of time. The difference between the concept of time in Western Europe and ...

Icons and drafts by nun Iuliania (Sokolova) are exhibited in Moscow – PHOTOS

04 July 2010

Nun Iuliania Sokolova became an icon painter in the most antireligious years of the Soviet Union's history. In the 1928-1929 she was copying tha ancient icons and fresques of Vologda, Pskov, ...

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