A research assistant and doctoral candidate at Regensburg University, Germany.
The Russian Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris has been mired in controversy and scandal from the beginning. The genesis of the project, according to the official story, was the request by the late Patriarch Alexey II to the presidents of Russia and France for a new cathedral in Paris for the use of the[…..]
The broad shift towards acceptance of same-sex relationships and sex in Western culture has been met consistently over past decades by opposition from the Orthodox Church. More recently, in response to the extension of civil marriage legislation to include same-sex couples, many Orthodox hierarchs and theologians have sought to rearticulate and disseminate what they consider[…..]
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When Orthodox scholars get together, we rarely talk directly about the future. But occasionally the pressing needs of our time demand such a conversation. The near future is an exciting time for Orthodoxy: His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch has called a representative council of bishops to convene in Istanbul next spring, and many hope that[…..]
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