Saint Dasios of Durostorum The twentieth of November is the feast-day in the Orthodox Church of the holy martyr Saint Dasios of Durostorum...

Well, it seems I got quite the response on social media to my last ‘political’ blog post here. Much of it was… let’s just say, uninspiring...

Eastern Europe truly is a very different place from Western Europe, in part because many of the illusions and lies that our elites have co...

South Korean drive-in coronavirus testing facility The one bright spot in this saga of the novel coronavirus is the performance of South K...

I’d kind of given up on watching the Democratic debates , in large part because they are so badly staged in general. But there was one qu...

Osmel Martinez Azcue, who got a $3,270 bill for a coronavirus test In China, we have already started to see more people being released fr...

Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov, Jr) in Brat Before I proceed much further in this Kazakhstani film series I seem to have touched off (and th...

Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom: Russian patrons of familial love The family represented the initial cell of human society. The holy hi...

Something about our days has me thinking about the fall of (Western) Rome. The crisis of faith in the old established institutions – in o...

Archimandrites Hyacinth (Bichurin, l) and Peter (Kamensky, r) My hat is off, deeply, to Fr Dionysius (Pozdnyaev), the rector of the Russi...