Church and State: Lessons from History for the Present Day
This is the Ukrainian Orthodox Viewpoint ( from the Society of Orthodox Journalists), which most Russian Orthodox also probably agree with. It begs the question as to why the once multinational...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers July 2025
The True Faith. The state of the various Orthodox jurisdictions in England today and fifty years ago. The moment when the Russian Church turned its back on Europe. The Oxford and London Russian...
View ArticleWhen the Church is Taken Over by the State and Faith Becomes Religion
Introduction: The Roman Catholic-Protestant Model of Church Administration What exactly happens when the Church becomes part of the State? This has happened many times in Western history and shaped...
View ArticleWinner Takes All: The Self-Destruction of the Church of the Russian Emigration
In the years following the so-called Russian Revolution in 1917, the Church of the resulting Russian Emigration split into three parts. A few, very few, remained under the Church centred in Moscow,...
View ArticleOn the Human Remains Found near Ekaterinburg and the Last Tsar
Introduction On the night of 4/17 July 2018 I was fortunate enough to be able to take part in the centennial pilgrimage of 120,000 Orthodox in the Urals. For hours after the Divine liturgy, led by...
View ArticleCome, Holy Spirit! Over 5,000 Words on over Fifty Years of Faithfulness to...
Fifty Years of History; 2022: Departure of the Majority to the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia; The Ukraine; The Suicide of ROCOR; Eastern Papism; A New Local Church Fifty Years of History Q: Why is 2025...
View ArticleThe Consequences of the Russian Victory in the Ukraine
The Origin of the Western Delusion The elites of Western European countries have always tried to invade and then colonise and exploit the lands nearest to them. This means the invasions, mainly from...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers (January-May 2025): On Pastoral Work, the Church and...
Pastoral Work Q: On the internet you have been called ‘popular but controversial’. Do you think that is fair? A: That question again! My answer is that I don’t know if it is fair. It is not for me to...
View ArticleThe Liberation, Demilitarisation and DeNazification of the Ukraine, the...
Introduction: National Demons Just like every person, so every country also has its demons. France has its absurd narcissistic vanity (Louis XIV, Napoleon, Mitterrand, Macron), Britain has its...
View ArticleStriving for Russian Church Unity: A Historical Note
For 47 years, from 1975 to 2022, I strived to help create unity inside the severely divided Russian Church, which then consisted of three aggressively warring ‘jurisdictions’. From 1975 to 2000 I...
View ArticleTranslation of an Interview with the Russian Chrisma Church Website
Bright Tuesday 22 April 2025 https://t.me/s/chrisma_center Part One: The Orthodox World and Inter-Orthodox Relations How would you characterise the situation of the Orthodox world and of...
View ArticleHopes for the Future of the Orthodox World: A Personal View
Foreword I sometimes feel as though I have lived four lives. The first was childhood and youth. The second was over fifty years ago with the old Russian emigration in England and France. Already old...
View ArticleThe Turning-Point of 2025: The Self-Humiliation of the Western European Elite
Foreword: The Great Delusion ‘The West defeated Russia in the Cold War’. This is the greatest delusion and myth that the West has entertained since 1945. In 1992 the West deluded itself and thought...
View ArticleOn the Third Anniversary of our Freedom from Persecution 2022-2025: The...
Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake (Matthew 5,11) Foreword Although the statement below concerns the 5,000...
View ArticleFrom Recent Correspondence: The Secret is Out!
Dear Father Andrew, It’s been a long time since we last spoke or saw each other. I was engrossed in my own journey that requires a face-to-face meeting to share. In these strange and challenging times,...
View ArticleRegrets and Hopes in 2025
Q: In the New Year we tend to look both forwards and backwards. Can you tell us what regrets you have about the past? And what hopes do you have for the future? A: I have three regrets, but a hope that...
View ArticleOn the Present Divisions in the Russian Orthodox Church on Account of the...
Foreword We have never had the slightest doubt that the Russian Federation, one of the World’s four Superpowers and the fourth largest economy in the world, would emerge militarily victorious in the...
View ArticleOn Metr Antony (Bloom) and Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov)
Q: You are one of the few people who knew well both Metr Antony (Bloom) and Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov). What do you think of them and their disputes? A: I am not sure that I am one of the few,...
View ArticleOn Delusions: Western, Ukrainian, Russian and Clerical
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom…and the stars shall fall from heaven… Matt. 24 Introduction The appalling conflict in the Ukraine marks a turning-point in world...
View ArticlePeace for the Ukraine – and for the Orthodox Church?
US Disengagement? Even before Trump had been elected, the US elite had realised that it had to disengage from its Ukraine project. Russia had not been weakened, regime-changed, dismembered and...
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