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No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice

By Katherine Kelaidis

…in directly. This difference has not gone unnoticed by those in Russia and Ukraine and throughout the Eastern Christian world. In the words of Sergei Chapnin, editor-in-chief of «The Gifts» (Дары),writing at Public Orthodoxy: Today it is abundantly clear: Patriarch Kirill is not ready to defend his flock—neither the people of Ukraine nor the people of Russia—against Putin’s aggressive regime. Human suffering is not one of his priorities. After all…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, Strategic Prayer Apostolic Network, International Freedom Group, Wagner University, and The Oak Initiative, just to name a few. [The field has vastly improved in the past year or two, so anyone looking into NAR-related subjects might consider the materials listed in the Further Reading section below.] The knowledge and the vocabulary Reporting on the NAR has significantly improved from a decade ago when its r…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…earch for “natural law” and related substantive matters such as “religious freedom” outpaces “originalism” with more than 1,000 mentions. Recent law school lectures sponsored by the Federalist Society include University of Toledo law professor Lee Strang making the case for a “natural law argument for originalism” at Ave Maria Law School; NYU law professor Richard Epstein speaking on natural law theory at the Federalist Society chapter of Florida…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…ly swarm to three million persons! But others travel to Jeddah too on this flight, including Muslims and non-Muslims. Jeddah is a port city; and as the major airport hub for Saudi Arabia, this flight has all types. Now, I’ve been on many planes, but this is the first time I’ve been on a plane where 50% of the seats are business- and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Ok…

Russia and the US Have More in Common Than You Might Think

By Chrissy Stroop

…ecame officially defunct. In my third year, there were no Westerners in my international postgraduate classes. In short, the Maidan Revolution, the ouster of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych by a coalition that involved many idealistic young Ukrainians who sought a more democratic future—and Russia’s reactionary response that culminated in the annexation of Crimea and the creation of a new “frozen conflict” in Ukraine’s more indust…

Is Putin a ‘Real’ Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to Ask Different Questions

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler

…orldly’—conditions. In the case of the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, some writers have suggested that Putin’s latest attempt to ravage Ukraine is a holy war, and that the Russian president understands his imperialist role in global politics as almost divinely inspired or mandated. Somewhat paradoxically, however, when Putin’s individual beliefs are positioned in this public framing, he’s often pegged as religiously motivated but not…

The Russian Patriarch Just Gave His Most Dangerous Speech Yet — And Almost No One in the West Has Noticed

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ot in Moscow, but Kyiv, offered up a version of history that simply erases Ukraine from the map. Kirill blames “various forces” (i.e. outsiders, including—one would imagine—the West) that emerged in the Middle Ages for what he regards as a false division between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, he doesn’t even acknowledge there are such people as Ukrainians, referring to all involved parties (including, perhaps, one could speculate, Belarusians) as “H…

Could Patriarch Kirill’s ‘Evil Forces’ Against Russia and the Russian Church Refer to Jews?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ry. Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill share a vision of history in which Ukraine does not exist as a distinct nation or an independent state. To their way of thinking, the 10th-century conversion of the Kievan Rus forever unites Russians and Ukrainians as a single people, rightly ruled (since the 16th century apparently) from Moscow. It’s a vision that Kirill stresses in the very sentence in which he invokes “evil forces”: “brotherly Ukraine” is…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…I included the people of Libya in my prayers, that they be given strength, freedom, and protection from harm. And then, kind of, sort of, in the nick of time, France, Britain, and the United States obtained a Security Council resolution—forwarded for debate by Lebanon, whose government was formed by Hezbollah, a convenient ally this time—and began devastating Qaddafi’s forces before they could effect a likely mass slaughter in Benghazi. But the ti…

Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ays old. When the war began, there were two competing Orthodox churches in Ukraine: the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which was created and granted complete independence by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 2018, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), under the authority of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Across these hundred days, it’s become clear that Patriarch Kirill is not goi…