Managing editor of The Wheel
A professor of religion at the University of Southern Mississippi, Slagle’s 2011 study, The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace: American Conversion to Orthodox Christianity, was one of the first studies to focus specifically on American conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy, an area of research that would soon be followed by Oliver Herbel (2014), Turning to Tradition, and Sarah Riccardi-Schwarz (2022), Between Heaven and Russia.
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Folk art, forgotten churches. What relationship have such subjects with monarchy and Christian empire? Perhaps more than meets the eye. Olya Gluschenko and Costis Drygiankis, in their photo album “On the Roads We Travelled”: Unfrequented Places in the Metropolis of Demetrias, present an intimate view of sacred space as experienced in the earthly spaces where[…..]
The infertile body is arguably the biblical body par excellence. It is the infertile female body that propels salvation history. From Abraham and Sarah to the coming of Christ through the Virgin Mary, the barren body is inhabited by deep metaphorical meaning. Though fertility and birth are pervasive in Orthodox liturgy and theology through the[…..]
The problem of suffering is one of the greatest challenges for the minds of all believers, and the logical and moral problems it poses are perhaps the greatest sources of unbelief for many. While theologians have consecrated volumes to this complex subject, our popular desire for answers and reasons result in a shallow set of[…..]
