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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 ...
An article which looks at Modern Orthodoxy, its world views and customs and touches upon Open and Centrist Orthodoxy. Judaism responded in different ways to the Enlightenment and the development of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...