Orthodox Christianity

America Has Traded God for Empire, Narcissism, Militarism, Usury, Sodomy

October 28, 2020

It goes without saying that Father Joseph Gleason of Russian Faith is making his mark in the world for the Kingdom of God in Jesus Christ. His theological journey has finally taken him into the priest…

Hagia Sophia Is Still Symbolic of Christianity and Islam’s Shared History

August 2, 2020

Opinion

Hagia Sophia’s conversion from a museum into a mosque has seen thousands and thousands of words committed to the page across the globe. Most of it recycles the same information - that the g…

Hagia Sophia: Religion as Politics

July 26, 2020

Opinion

Sultan Abdul Hamid II, in the face of a rising secular nationalism in the late 1800s, that culminated in the Young Turk movement, tried to restore the influence of the Ottoman Empire among Islamic nat…

Clash of Civilizations, Revisited

July 19, 2020

Opinion

Late afternoon in May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet, the third son of Murad, born of a slave-girl – probably Christian – in the harem, fluent in Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Persian and Hebrew, followed b…

The West Has No Standing on Hagia Sophia

July 19, 2020

Opinion

A defining moment came, rather unnoticed, when the foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) held a virtual meeting on July 13 where the group’s relations with Turkey was on the agenda. The resumpt…

Mosques, Museums and Politics: The Fate of Hagia Sophia

July 17, 2020

Opinion

When the caustic Evelyn Waugh visited the majestic sixth century creation of Emperor Justinian, one subsequently enlarged, enriched and encrusted by various rulers, he felt underwhelmed. “‘Agia’ will …

Hagia Sophia: Clash of Civilizations or Reassertion of Civilizational Identity?

July 16, 2020

Opinion

Turkey's controversial decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque has been met with sharp criticism abroad from those who claim that it'll exacerbate the so-called "Clash of Civili…

Target Orthodox Church: NATO’s Eastern Crusades

January 24, 2020

Opinion

Needless to say, the important and portentous story of the attempted subversion of the Orthodox Church using the intelligence and political instruments still at the disposal of the moribund post-Chris…