Saint Neagoe Basarab, Voievode of Wallachia — The New David of the Romanian Land
Saint Neagoe Basarab, persecuted under three princes, chosen by the people, founder of Curtea de Argeș and Athos benefactor, author of the Teachings.
Category Orthodox History
Studies on Orthodox history, hesychasm, the Russian diaspora, ROCOR, the Philokalia, canonical ruptures, and the living transmission of Tradition.
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Orthodox History
Studies on the transmission of Orthodoxy through time: hesychasm, the Russian diaspora, ROCOR, the Philokalia, canonical ruptures, and continuity of Tradition.
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The Burning Bush of Antim Monastery
A major Romanian episode of twentieth-century hesychasm, where culture, monasticism, and the prayer of the heart meet.
The Life of Gleb (Herman) Podmoshensky: Between Zeal and Delusion
The life of Gleb (Herman) Podmoshensky, co-founder of Platina: zeal, fall, schism, and prelest through a patristic lens.
Ivan Kireevsky and the Mind That Prays
Ivan Kireevsky, the Russian critic and philosopher trained under Hegel and Schelling, who found at Optina Monastery the integrality of the mind and the living tradition of the Holy Fathers.
Saint Nikolai Velimirović in America: The Exile, the Last Liturgy, and the Death on His Knees
Saint Nikolai Velimirović in America: the exile after Dachau, his ministry at Libertyville and Saint Tikhon’s, the last Liturgy, and his death in prayer.
Byzantine Chant — The Music from the Monastery That You Don’t Sing in Your Parish
What is psaltic music, and why do Orthodox parishes sound so different? A history of Byzantine chant, the Oktoechos and Saint John Koukouzelis.
The Bogomoljci Movement: The Great Lay Awakening of Serbian Orthodoxy in the Twentieth Century
The Bogomoljci movement, the great lay awakening of Serbian Orthodoxy, under Saint Nikolai Velimirović and in continuity with the patristic tradition.
The Burning Bush of Antim Monastery: A Hesychast Flame in the Heart of the Twentieth Century
The history of the Burning Bush of Antim Monastery: Sandu Tudor, Father Ioan Kulâghin, the prayer of the heart, Communist imprisonment, and Romanian hesychast legacy.
Father Seraphim Rose: Repentance, Hagiography, and Discernment
A careful Orthodox reading of Father Seraphim Rose, his biographies, Platina, hagiography, repentance, and discernment.
Rue Daru, Russian Paris and ROCOR: the story of an almost 90-year rupture
The history of the rupture between the Russian Archdiocese of Paris (Rue Daru) and ROCOR: from the Russian exile after 1917 to the reunifications of 2007 and 2019.
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului (I) — His Life and Encounter with Saint Paisius Velichkovsky
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului — Part I: His Life and Encounter with Saint Paisius Velichkovsky “When I saw him, I glorified God from my whole soul that He had deemed me worthy, unworthy as I am, to behold so…