On the third day of Easter, I stood in front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. With me was a prominent scholar of American religion who was visiting Eastern Europe for the first time. We ...
Patriarch Kirill’s (right) messianic exceptionalism — his vision of Russia as called to save the world from itself — and his complicity with the propaganda of the Russian state and actions of ...
The Protestant Reformation shattered Western Christianity, but the Orthodox Church never experienced a comparable rupture.
The other day, I read Carl Trueman's piece in First Things titled "David French And The Future Of Orthodox Protestantism". Nowhere in the short essay is "orthodox Protestantism" defined. In the ...
Playing in the fields of heresy and ambiguity might offer short-term kicks, but only sound doctrine can supply a lifetime of thrills. Trevin Wax stands firmly in Chesterton’s tradition with his new ...
COMMENTARY: Despite the lamentable developments in Ukraine and beyond in 2022, it’s possible 2023 could herald long-desired ecumenical breakthroughs. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew ...
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on ...
Converts Are Finding Eastern Orthodoxy Online. the Church Wants to Help Them Commune Face-To-Face LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the ...
There are many terms for people who have left Orthodox Judaism: apikores (an ancient Hebrew term for “apostate”); chozer b’she’elah (a decorous Israeli term, which translates roughly to “one who ...
In my last piece for the Register, I began to cover the last of the three transcendentals, truth. For those of us who are beginning to read this series with this article, permit me to give the ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...