When Ideology and Blasphemy Meet
by George WeigelPatriarch Kirill uses his position in the Russian Orthodox Church to support evil. Continue Reading »
A Visit to Fr. Zinon
by John P. BurgessDown a deeply rutted dirt road, far from Russia’s centers of power and wealth, sits a small compound behind twelve-foot-high brick walls. People in the nearest village, several miles away, have heard rumors that an odd man lives there, a monk perhaps. But no one has seen him or knows anything . . . . Continue Reading »
Seriously, God Is Love
by Peter J. LeithartSergius Bulgakov has long been hailed by Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike as a titan of twentieth-century theology. He wrote on everything. After a youthful flirtation with Marx, he published Philosophy of Economy (1912), an anti-Marxist work of social theory. In The Tragedy of . . . . Continue Reading »
Genocide in Ukraine?
by George WeigelIt’s time to stop sloganeering and get serious about what is happening in Eastern Europe. Continue Reading »
The Russian Path Not Taken
by George WeigelAlexander 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 »
The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow
by George WeigelA 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 »
An Orthodox Awakening
by George WeigelAs 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 »
Pascha and Pandemic
by John P. BurgessDevelopments around Pascha this year reveal a much more complex picture of Russia's church-state relations. Continue Reading »
From Crete to Romania
by Nicholas DenysenkoIn 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 »
Shifting Tectonic Plates in Eastern Christianity
by George WeigelA realized autocephaly for Ukrainian Orthodoxy would “mark a new period in the history of the Universal Church.” Continue Reading »
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