Pjotr Volkov (geboren in Uruguay als Diego Daniel García), is antropoloog en historicus met een bijzondere belangstelling voor vroegere en huidige gebeurtenissen in verband met de grote geschiedenis van het Slavische Rijk en het orthodoxe christendom. Gedurende een heel decennium heeft hij gewerkt aan een ambitieus boek waarin het orthodoxe christendom centraal wordt gesteld in alle politieke, economische, filosofische en antropologische overwegingen die onze moderne wereld vormgeven. In dit...

Sergei Tretyakov is one of those artists and intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century whose name is known, but whose achievements are barely recognized. He seems curiously elusive. Who exactly was he? What did he do? A victim of Stalin’s Great Terror, declared an ‘enemy of the people’, his works were ‘disappeared’ and his name forbidden to be mentioned.

But he was at the very heart of avant-garde modernism. He collaborated with Sergei Eisenstein both in the theatre...

I learned about the Blessed Virgin Mary as a child attending a superb Roman Catholic grade school and as a teenager studying at an excellent Catholic high school. My friendship with Our Lady was nurtured at the University of Notre Dame and deepened throughout my adult life. Later as a Wesleyan pastor, I missed the Virgin Mary as an intimate and important part of my life. Finally coming home, called in significant part by my yearning for Our Lady, I fell in love with the Theotokos as a Deacon ...