February 1, 2020 Why God Has Not Given Wings to Man One hunter liked to go to the forest and the field for prey. Once he was climbing a high mountain for a long time,…
January 27, 2020 Our Ministry Is Both Dangerous and Difficult I was the rector of the Epiphany Church in the village of Khatanga in 1999. It is the northernmost part of the Krasnoyarsk Territory,…
January 9, 2020 “In the First Months of Rehab, I Didn’t Believe I’d Ever Get Over It”: The Story of a Drug Addict Who Made It Through Nikita Sychev is 35 years old. He was born and raised in Moscow. Up until 18, he was an ordinary guy with no taste…
December 31, 2019 “Happy Santa Claus Day”: a Story that Happened in New York City on Christmas Day This funny story happened to one of the most inspired preachers of the Russian Church Outside Russia, Archbishop Averkius (Taushev) who wrote a Handbook…
December 5, 2019 3 Stories About Love for Man Lunch is more important Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov) told how his friend, a priest, began to build a church in his parish. Things were going…
December 1, 2019 “I Flew Out of the Rear Window to the Roadway”: A Bishop Recounts a Miracle From His Childhood It was a hot July day in 1963. My father and I took a taxi to drive along the Neva along the Palace Embankment…
November 20, 2019 “God Has Come!” I think that each of us, regardless of age and spiritual experience, needs words of strengthening. Because a person is struggling during his life;…
November 18, 2019 Miracles in the Lives of Orthodox Christians. Archpriest Boris Prokofiev Miracles happen in our lives every day, but we don’t always notice them. However, there are times when no one can doubt the presence…
October 27, 2019 Hearing Our Story in a Parable When I meet a new person, my immediate impulse is to try to find something familiar in the other, something we share in common….
October 19, 2019 “The Nurses Looked at the Doors of the Ward and Cried”: The Wonder at Botkin Hospital My Moscow friend Larissa, whose hospitable home I stayed at when visiting Moscow, had an emergency lately. Her ex-husband, with whom she maintains good…
October 15, 2019 The Graceless Elder: Parable of Abba Artemon There was a small monastery near the nice town of Ascalon located on the Mediterranean coast. There were monks who sought solitude and wanted…
October 7, 2019 The Parable about the Poor Man and the Grocer The wife of one poor man cooked butter, and he sold it to one of the groceries. She cooked circle-shaped butter, weighing 1 kg….
