Religion & Beliefs

Yuri Chekalin18.03.2025

Einstein once said in an interview in J.S. Viereck’s book “Glimpses of the Great”, in response to a question about whether he believed in God: “Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question to which I can answer simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I am not an atheist. […]

Andrey Vedyaev04.03.2025

Half a century ago, on November 8, 1974, Wolf Messing passed away, a unique Soviet psychic and seer who made a significant contribution to the Victory of the Soviet people over the fascism of Europe. When I am asked what this contribution consists of, I suggest that we first think about the contribution to the […]

Tatiana Kasatkina20.02.2025

“…two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of […]

Prot. Victor Harakas29.01.2025

To my knowledge, no formal statement on nuclear proliferation has been issued as yet by any official body of the Orthodox Church. Without a doubt, it will become an issue. In my book, “Contemporary Moral Issues”, I address the “arms race.” I believe that it is the Church’s general teaching that war is not good, […]

Alexander Palladin25.01.2025

Ever since 1821, my ancestors, the Palladins, used to live in the village of Dyutkovo not far from Moscow. Some of them served in the local Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, founded in the 16th century. A few years ago, while collecting materials about my family tree, I came across an […]

Yuri Chekalin13.12.2024

Einstein once said in an interview in G.S. Viereck’s book “Glimpses of the Great”, in response to a question about whether or not he believed in God. “Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an […]

Vladimir Grigoryan24.09.2024

I had a friend who was convinced that if you launch an Orthodox satellite and broadcast something Orthodox on all TVs, the country will very quickly return to faith, become a churchgoer in a matter of years. I remember when I hear from priests again that most teenagers who grew up in Christian families completely […]

Natalia Tanshina20.09.2024

The West loves (and loved) to declare its tolerance and to accuse others, those who disagree, of lacking it. And tolerance — only in relation to itself. Let’s take the religious issue, in relation to which this term is often used. As is known, in 1054 the previously united Christian Church split into the Western, […]

Yuri Chekalin08.04.2024

Since ancient times, in Japanese mythology they have been portrayed as jokers, shapeshifters — they can transform into people: commoners, monks, samurai, etc. If in Chinese fairy tales raccoon dogs are evil and treacherous, then in Japanese they are more likely to be pranksters, lovers of a good life. Since these tanuki are everywhere looking […]

Pavel Begichev12.09.2022

Who are the Old Catholics? Most people have never even heard of them. Today we have the opportunity to ask a few questions to Archbishop Metropolitan Pavel Begichev, General Secretary of the World Council of National Catholic Churches, the largest conservative Old Catholic association in Europe. — Monsignor Pavel, can you briefly tell us who […]

Great Scientists Who Believed in God

Wolf Messing’s Magic is Immortal

About the Publican and the Pharisee

Nuclear War

Eugene de Beauharnais’s Fate for Him Was Fair

The Question of Science and God

How I became Orthodox

On the Issue of Tolerance of the West

Tanuki is Japanese for Raccoon Dog

Western Rite Orthodox or Catholics without a Pope

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World