Russian Orthodoxy

Genocide in Ukraine?

It’s time to stop sloganeering and get serious about what is happening in Eastern Europe. Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2022

Alexander Men knew something about spiritual voids, and he might have proposed filling that post-communist Russian emptiness with something beautiful and spiritually enriching, rather than with the ugly nationalism promoted by Kirill and other Russian Orthodox leaders. Continue Reading »

4 May 2022

The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow

by George Weigel

A meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power. Continue Reading »

27 Apr 2022

An Orthodox Awakening

by George Weigel

As Putin’s missiles have shattered Mariupol’, Kirill’s acquiescence in barbarism has shattered Russian Orthodoxy’s campaign to be first among Orthodox equals. Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2022

Pascha and Pandemic

by John P. Burgess

Developments around Pascha this year reveal a much more complex picture of Russia's church-state relations. Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

From Crete to Romania

by Nicholas Denysenko

In Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA). Pioneered by IOTA’s president, Paul Gavrilyuk, the gathering overcame forces that have prevented intra-Orthodox dialogue . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019