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The Rise of Russia and the Collapse of the West – fulfillment of prophecy? [Video]

Something to think about. This came to mind gradually as our Chief Editor Alexander Mercouris has been carefully chronicling the war in Ukraine and the actions taken by European and American officials to try to punish Russia and its leadership. Nothing has worked the way it was intended to. Russia itself is relatively unscathed by […]

US Churches reopen, but has anything changed? Part II – Faith – [Video]

“I trust the science.” American popular political culture is replete with short sound-bite statements like this one. They are deceptive and dangerous, because the subtly polarize large groups of the population to adopt views they probably never would accept if presented directly. For example, if a priest in the Orthodox Church were to tell his […]

U.S. Churches reopen, but has anything changed? – Part I [Video]

Around the time of Pascha (a.k.a Orthodox “Easter”) this year, several bishops and ruling metropolitans in the United States announced the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in full, to take effect immediately if possible, and before September 1, 2021 if circumstances prevented individual parish temples from resuming normal services. Such was the thought of Metropolitan Joseph, the […]