Ukraine
The receptive, reflective act of paying attention
For Simone Weil, paying attention means asking, ”What are you going through?”
Is Russia’s war on Ukraine about religion?
The history of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy suggests the answer is complicated.
The Russian troops at the Ukraine border are part of a larger ploy
What can the US do to change Putin’s political calculus?
The Orthodox in Ukraine and their rival churches
The creation of a new body echoes old hostilities.
The history and myths that made Russia
How did Russia's longstanding sense of grievance morph into a civil religion?
Borderland churches: Faith and identity in Ukraine
The unrest in Ukraine has led to calls to establish a national church. But which church should play this uniting role?
The church under Putin: Nationalism and Russian Orthodoxy
The Orthodox Church aligns itself closely with the government. Yet its leaders have also offered some help to movements that challenge the status quo.
Borderland speech
The best outcome of the tensions in Ukraine would allow the country to develop its unique role as a bridge between languages and cultures.
Saving the Soviets
Sunday Adelaja's story sounds like the start of a bad joke: "Did you hear about the African who tried to start a church in the Soviet Union?"