Religion & Beliefs

David Tilman16.11.2025

The Romans loved their native soil; they were characteristically oriented toward the land. Earth, they firmly believed, was mother of all, and they called her mater terra. Never great seafarers, the Romans had found in their earlier history that the rich land of Italy met all their essential needs, and their attitudes toward nature reflect […]

Prot. Victor Harakas15.11.2025

To begin to repent, you should first understand what repentance is. What is Repentance? The English word “repent” is based on a Latin word which means to “change or reform one’s mind.” In Greek, the same idea is expressed by the word “metanoia.” It means that you want to, and do in fact, change. But […]

Prot. Victor Harakas10.11.2025

What does the following passage from the New Testament as it appears in the Jerusalem Bible mean: “If it is hard for a good man to be saved, what will happen to the wicked man and to sinners?” (1 Peter 4:18)? This passage is interesting on a number of different levels. First, in its context. […]

Victor Aliyev06.11.2025

Almost two thousand years ago, the first disciples of Christ were passing on the news of the Resurrection with awe and fear, and the Church was just beginning to emerge in the homes, streets, dungeons, and squares of the empire. Today, it is difficult for us not to wonder: what happened to the one Body […]

Prot. Victor Harakas03.11.2025

The Orthodox Church has many times expressed its philosophy of ecumenical involvement. The ultimate purpose is to fulfill Christ’s will that there be “one flock, one shepherd’ (John 10:16), so as to reunite separated and divided Christians into the one Church of Jesus Christ. This is a long and difficult goal to fulfill. It may […]

Prot. Victor Harakas26.10.2025

When should one fast? What different kinds of fasting are there and why? What does fasting do for you? The Kinds of Fasting In order to answer these questions best, I will rearrange the order of them. First of all, let’s look at what kinds of fasting there are and the reason for them. In […]

Victor Aliyev19.10.2025

Dreams, spiritual visions and revelations in the Lutheran tradition: from Luther and Böhme to modern Protestants. The Orthodox tradition, recognizing in principle the possibility of divine revelations through dreams (this is stated in the lives of the saints), in ascetic practice treats them with deep “sobriety”, as a potentially dangerous area of delusion. The Lutheran […]

Prot. Victor Harakas15.10.2025

The Orthodox teaching on dreams is that we shouldn’t believe them and interpret them, but dismiss them, because they may come from the devil. SPIRITUAL VISIONS Does the Orthodox faith believe in revelation of spiritual visions through dreams? The answer to this question is a bit on the complex side. The Church could hardly deny […]

Victor Aliyev08.10.2025

Fifteen years of pastoral ministry have taught me a simple truth: being a Lutheran in Russia means constantly answering the question of what Russian Lutheranism is. There is no answer—there are six different answers, six paths that seem to lead to the same goal. The history of this diversity goes back centuries. The first Lutheran […]

Prot. Victor Harakas26.09.2025

How to explain the following passage from the New Testament as it appears in the Jerusalem Bible: “If it is hard for a good man to be saved, what will happen to the wicked man and to sinners?” (1 Peter 4:18)? The passage which you mention is interesting on a number of different levels. First, […]

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Roman Attitudes Toward Nature

Repentance

Biblical Interpretation

Two Sides of the Reformation

Ecumenism

Fasting

Dreams in Contemporary Protestantism

Common Questions

6 Lutheran Churches in Russia

An Important Lesson

Roman Attitudes Toward Nature

Repentance

Ukrainian Image as the Gold Toilet

Undisciplined Democrats and Regimented Republicans