Articles on the history and transmission of Orthodox Christian tradition
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.
A careful Orthodox reading of Father Seraphim Rose, his biographies, Platina, hagiography, repentance, and discernment.
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 — 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…
How a believer can recognise a canonical ROCOR parish in the UK — and why not every church calling itself the «Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia» is in communion with the Orthodox Church.
On the shelves of Orthodox bookshops today you can find several different Philokalias — in Greek, in Russian, in Romanian, in English. They are not identical. This article maps the living lines of transmission — from St. Paisius Velichkovsky at Neamț, through St. Theophan the Recluse, to Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae — and explains what each editor added, omitted, filtered, or restored, and why it matters for the reader today.