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A Russian Orthodox Church Website http://www.pravmir.com Orthodox Christianity and the World Wed, 16 May 2012 01:01:14 +0000 ru hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Trouble with Tolstoy http://www.pravmir.com/the-trouble-with-tolstoy/ http://www.pravmir.com/the-trouble-with-tolstoy/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 01:01:14 +0000 Sergey Khudiev http://www.pravmir.com/?p=5563

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...

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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...

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President Barack Obama recently affirmed his personal support for the legalization of same-sex marriage. For a perspective from Russia on this momentous development, we offer the following commentary...

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We see Christ speaking with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well, on the road from Jerusalem to Galilee. Samaria is located between the two; the road that goes through it is the shortest, but...

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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...

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Do you read? Reading involves you intimately with the word, and the word is the definitive means of communication between man and man, and between God and man. Remember, the Son of God Himself...

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Sretensky Monastery rises early: the interview with Fr. Tikhon is scheduled for 8:30 (!). By then, part of the day at Sretensky has already gone by: the brotherhood’s moleben [supplicatory...

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I admit to being a child of the 60′s (which means I was born in the early 50′s). I have lived through a period in American history marked by assassinations, abuse of power, incompetence...

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Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? (Mark 4:21) In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Dear brothers...

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Today’s Gospel is normally read at the Blessing of Waters, so the words we are reading are well known to you all. The Lord Jesus went to Jerusalem and came to the so-called sheep pool, a sad...

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