The Trouble with Tolstoy

The views of Leo Tolstoy – specifically those that gave occasion to the Synod’s well-known edict – have always enjoyed (and continue to enjoy) a certain popularity. [1] This is not just because of... 

Calendar

In Spirit and in Truth

This, the fifth week of Pascha, is called the “Sunday of the Samaritan Woman” in the Church calendar. The subject of the feast is the Savior’s conversation with a certain woman at Jacob’s... 

• Christ and the Samaritan Woman
• The Apostle and Evangelist Mark: From Lamb to Lion

Family

The Great Ministry of Christian Women

Today is the feast day of the Myrrhbearing Women and the day commemorating Joseph and Nicodemus – two Pharisees, two members of the council, who buried the Lord. This is a day celebrating fidelity,... 

• Family Life in an Orthodox Rhythm
• How Not to Spoil Love

Library

In Spirit and in Truth

This, the fifth week of Pascha, is called the “Sunday of the Samaritan Woman” in the Church calendar. The subject of the feast is the Savior’s conversation with a certain woman at Jacob’s... 

• Christ and the Samaritan Woman
• Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo

Multimedia

More than 65,000 come to pray in defense of faith (Photos)

A prayer in defense of the faith inside and outside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior brought together about 65,000 Orthodox Christians from Moscow and various other parts of Russia,... 

• Ethiopian Iconography (Photo Report)
• “When Thou Wast Baptized in the Jordan…”

Our Faith

Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo

With the blessing of His Holiness, the late Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia, the memory of the New Martyrs of Butovo is celebrated on the fourth Saturday after Pascha. The following... 

• Do You Read?
• “Remember Thy First Love”: A Conversation with Fr. Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Personal Experience

In Remembrance of Archpriest Vsevolod Shpiller (+1984)

On the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas we posted a sermon by Fr. Vsevolod Shpiller. While very well known and highly respected in Russia, particularly by those Muscovite faithful who lived through... 

• Letter to a New Convert
• God Has A Plan

New Russian Martyrs

Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo

With the blessing of His Holiness, the late Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia, the memory of the New Martyrs of Butovo is celebrated on the fourth Saturday after Pascha. The following... 

• When Time Does Not Matter: Saint Athanasius the Confessor, Bishop of Kovrov
• The New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia: Their Significance for People in the West

Orthodoxy around the World

Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo

With the blessing of His Holiness, the late Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia, the memory of the New Martyrs of Butovo is celebrated on the fourth Saturday after Pascha. The following... 

• Spiritual Guidance and Free Will: An Interview with Schema-Archimandrite Eli
• The Challenges of the Priesthood in Today’s Russia