Tag: Maria Skobtsova
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Outside the Camp: Opportunities and Opposition
by V. Rev. Dr. John A. Jillions | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски The recent dustup over Archbishop Elpidophoros borrowing the historic St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City for a celebration of the Divine Liturgy and then subsequently meeting with its rector, Bishop Dean Wolfe, highlights the perennial debate among Orthodox about how we ought to relate to […]
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Non-Fundamentalist Monastic Spirituality of Mother Maria Skobtsova
by Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer Since the beginning of modern times, monastic spirituality has had to face both extreme fundamentalism and extreme liberalism, or in postmodern times, relativism. One reason is an incomplete or incorrect understanding of the human person and human identity. Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), an Orthodox nun who left Russia after the 1917 […]