A Church (Further) Divided: Putin’s Patriarch Now Faces a Rebellion From Within the Russian Orthodox Church
While the world waits for Russian oligarchs to tire of their yachts being seized and…
Read More
A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right
If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about…
Read More
Could Patriarch Kirill’s ‘Evil Forces’ Against Russia and the Russian Church Refer to Jews?
If it wasn’t already blatantly apparent that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is not “calling for…
Read More
No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus is not calling for peace in Ukraine, and…
Read More
The Enigmatic Role of Anti-Semitism in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
As noted recently in the New York Times and elsewhere, the Jews of Ukraine have…
Read More
Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War
Putin has now ordered Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk. The first major conflict between…
Read More
Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer
The Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic has become a perfectly likely hero in the international…
Read More
What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media
Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian…
Read More
COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem
It’s a weird story, even in 2020—and that’s saying something. Father Sergey, a COVID-denying conspiracy-spewing…
Read More
What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?
Last Friday, the House’s Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights heard testimony that Russia’s human…
Read More