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Fall 2005 (#23)
Everything In Love: The Making of a Missionary
After a decade of service in Albania, Fr. Luke Veronis gives an insider’s view of Orthodox missions and a fascinating look at what it takes to be a successful long-term missionary.
The Pearl of Great Price: Resurrecting Orthodoxy in China
Russian Orthodox priest Fr. Dionisy Pozdnyaev on Orthodoxy in China – its status, needs, aspirations, and opportunities.
“I Was Born In An Orthodox World…” Early Memories of a Chinese Christian
by Archdeacon Papiy Fu
Through the eyes of a Chinese Christian, a succinct and moving account of life in pre-revolutionary China and the contemporary rekindling of Orthodoxy.
The Nativity Sermon of St. John Chrysostom
A Christmas gift to our readers: a sermon on the birth of Our Lord by the greatest of Christian preachers.
Summer 2005 (#22)
Antioch’s Golden Hoard: The Chalcedonian Orthodox Manuscript Treasury
Monk Elia Khalifeh on his international search for the widely-scattered Antiochian patrimony: Orthodox documents and manuscripts from the patriarchate where “the disciples were first called Christians.”
Saints and Scholars of Christian Antioch
A surprising and enlightening compendium of the Antiochian Fathers and Mothers of the Church.
Pillars to Heaven: Stylite Sites of the Levant
An engaging interview with Austrian archeologist Lukas Schrachner on early eastern monasteries and the “pillar saints” of Syria and Turkey. With his sharply-honed academic training and warm Christian heart, Lukas details the earthly evidence for these remarkable ascetics and the great pilgrimage centers that followed their repose.
The Village Church of Yegorievka: Part II
by Thomas and Sonia Hulbert
Letters from Road to Emmaus staff correspondent Thomas Hulbert and his Russian wife, Sonia, chronicling their five-year friendship with the small Siberian village of Yegorievka, the Church of St. Nicholas, and its young priest, Fr. Alexander Popov, who, against all odds, is awakening the souls of his people.
Spring 2005 (#21)
From Jainism to Orthodoxy: An Indian Passage
Radha Jagat (Elesa) Dalal speaks of her girlhood in India, her country’s recent history, and her upbringing as a pacifist Jain. With colorful detail and fascinating insight into daily Indian life, Elesa and her husband Symeon Branson contemplate Jain belief and her conversion to Orthodox Christianity.
Witness For An Apostle: Evidence of St. Thomas in India
by Mother Nectaria McLees
The historical, archeological, and patristic evidence supporting the Indian Christian tradition of St. Thomas’ first-century evangelization of India.
The Indian Verses of St. Ephrem the Syrian
Fourth-century verses from the Nisibene Hymns on the translation of St. Thomas’ relics from India to Edessa.
The Village Church of Yegorievka: Part I
by Thomas and Sonia Hulbert
Road to Emmaus staff correspondent and his Russian wife write about their five-year friendship with the small Siberian village of Yegorievka, the Church of St. Nicholas, and its young priest, Fr. Alexander Popov, who, against all odds, is awakening the souls of his people.
Winter 2005 (#20)
Eternal Questions: On Heaven and Hell
by Fr. Artemy Vladimirov
A reader’s letter pondering the existence of hell in the creation of an all-loving God is answered by Fr. Artemy Vladimirov, who illuminates this perennially rocky ground with insight and clarity.
The Pearl
Selected verses from the fourth-century poetry of St. Ephrem the Syrian.
Christ, The Medicine of Life: The Syriac Fathers on the Lord’s Descent Into Hell
An interview with Syriac scholar Irina Kukota, who traces the writings of the Syriac fathers of the Church on Christ’s Resurrection and His descent into hell to free Adam, Eve, and the Old Testament righteous, bridging contemporary worldviews and our own struggle for salvation with her invigorating perception of the Christian East.
St. Milos and the Pascha Egg
A marvelous Pascha story from 1939; Patras, Greece.
Fall 2004 (#19)
The Astonishing Missionary Journeys of the Apostle Andrew
International journalist and political commentator, George Alexandrou, traces the traditional routes of St. Andrew’s missionary journeys from the Russian far north to central Africa, bringing to life the Lord’s first-called apostle and the people at the “ends of the earth” to whom he preached.
St. Andrew and the Miraculous Isle of Valaam
by St. Ignaty Brianchaninov
Renowned 19th-century Russian theologian, ascetic and saint, St. Ignaty Brianchaninov writes on St. Andrew’s presence in Karelia, northern Russia.
Old Valaam: St. Andrew’s Legacy, A Contemporary Photomontage
Heaven, A Cave: Christmas in Bethlehem
by Mother Nectaria McLees
A pilgrimage to Christendom’s most beloved village.
Summer 2004 (#18)
We Are Going to Live in Paradise: Orthodoxy in the Congo
Fr. Theotimos Tsalas, a native Congolese Orthodox priest and spiritual son of Fr. Cosmas of Zaire, links early African Christianity to contemporary native thought and spirituality, offering a detailed and sobering description of African spiritism and magic with Orthodoxy as its corrective.
Letters From An Apostle: The Inner World of Fr. Cosmas of Zaire
In his own words: Missionary-priest Cosmas of Grigoriou (+1989). In eleven years Fr. Cosmas baptized 15,000 souls and built 55 parishes in the heart of the Congo.
The Last Priest of Caesarea
by H.V. Morton
A 1930s English travel writer researching the journeys of St. Paul encounters Arab life and a lone Greek Orthodox priest in ancient Caesarea.
Ascension
by Maxim Yakovlev
A story of contemporary Russia.
Spring 2004 (#17)
The Golden Thread of Faith: Mental Illness and the Soul
Russian Orthodox psychiatrist Dr. Marina Busigina on her years of service at the Ekaterinburg Regional Psychiatric Hospital, her patients, and her perception of mental illness, faith, and the soul.
George, Nadezhda, Tatiana, Sergei, and Michael
Five Orthodox Muscovites talk of their ongoing struggles with mental illness.
Columba Goes East
by Columba Bruce Clark
A Northern Irish convert and namesake of St. Columba of Iona charts his Orthodox locus in the Christian East.
Cadam in Ryazan
by Mother Nectaria McLees
A pilgrimage to Russia’s Ryazan region and the daily life of a provincial village: the remarkable people who are reclaiming its Orthodox past, and a compelling meeting with Matushka Nikandra, a 100-year-old schema-nun who survived the Russian gulag.
Winter 2004 (#16)
Daughter of the Eagles
Albanian Julia Kokoshari describes her youth under the world's most repressive atheist regime, God's revelation of faith, and her country’s remarkable past.
Albanian Diary: Ten Days in Shqiperia
by Mother Nectaria McLees
Through the back roads and ancient cities of Albania, Road to Emmaus finds a resurrected Church renewing a nation.
Strength in Numbers
An overview of Albanian Orthodoxy’s phenomenal decade of outreach.
Orthodox Roots, Bektashi Neighbors
A direct and candid interview with Albania’s native son, Metropolitan John of Korca, on coexistence with Albania's Bektashi Muslims and individuality and freedom in Orthodox spirituality.
Fall 2003 (#15)
Brittany’s Celtic Past
An interview with Fr. Maxime Le Diraison of Lannion on French Brittany, its Orthodox legacy and contemporary awakening.
Tro Breizh: A Pilgrimage to the Seven Saints of Brittany
by Mother Nectaria McLees
A busload of Russian pilgrims traverses Europe to venerate this traditional corner of early Gallic Christianity.
Corsican Root and Branch
Josephine Antherieu speaks of her life in Corsica and Aix-en-Provence, and the state of French Orthodoxy.
Global Perceptions and Local Relations: Pitfalls in Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Dr. Tarek Mitri, Lebanese Orthodox professor and coordinator for the World Council of Churches’ Christian-Muslim Dialogue, describes the misconceptions that divide Muslims and Christians and offers correctives. The lecture that stunned an entire theological conference.
Summer 2003 (#14)
Diveyevo: A Pilgrim’s Chronicle
by Mother Nectaria McLees
Since Holy Trinity Women’s Monastery opened its doors in 1990, the rebirth of this historic convent has been an inspiration to Orthodox everywhere. Our pilgrim’s chronicle, spanning ten years of monastic revival, brings to life the pre-revolutionary places and the contemporary Christians who are laboring to rebuild St. Seraphim's Diveyevo.
An Album of Old Sarov and Diveyevo
Pre-revolutionary photos from the archives of Diveyevo Convent.
1991: The Return of St. Seraphim’s Relics to Diveyevo
by Fr. Artemy Vladimirov
A talk on Moscow's Radio Radonezh, given days after St. Seraphim’s relics were carried in processsion through Moscow streets.
St. Seraphim’s Canonization and
the Russian Royal Family at Sarov
A narative of the 1903 canonization of St. Seraphim and the years of devotion and pilgrimage by the Russian royal family that preceded it.
Spring 2003 (#13)
Beyond the Great Wall: Orthodoxy In China
Chinese philologist loannis Chen maps out the acutely fragile Orthodox life of contemporary China, the 20th-century events that have shaped it, and his plea for an eleventh-hour rescue. Reading this before publication, a Russian editor exclaimed, “This is the heart of China.” We agree.
The Lotus Cross
A short chronograph of China’s early Christian history and the monument that preserved it.
The Ikon in the Home
by Stephen Graham
Late 19th-century English adventurer Stephen Graham rekindles the past with his engaging narrative of pre-revolutionary Russia.
The Lightness of Being (Orthodox)
Anecdotes of Moscow Christians.
Winter 2003 (#12)
The Bones of Contention
An interview with Olga Nikolaievna Kulikovsky-Romanoff
In the second of our two-part interview, Olga Nikolaievna, wife of Tihon Kulikovsky-Romanoff (nephew of Tsar Nicholas II and grandson of Tsar Alexander III), speaks of her ongoing struggle to dispute the authenticity of the alleged remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his family buried in St. Petersburg, her own views of monarchy and government, and her charity work with the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Foundation.
Forgive Us, Merciful Lord
A General Confession for Great Lent
A Lenten reflection led by Fr. Artemy Vladimirov of All Saints Church, Moscow, Russia.
Living Theology in Thessalonica
Three western students studying theology in Thessalonica speak about their experience of Greek culture, education and spirituality, and their changing world-views.
Father Chariton
A Pascha story from Russky Palomnik, Spring, 1911.
