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Tag: Russian Orthodoxy

Notes from the Underground, COVID-19, Freedom, and Compassion

The following article was written and presented as in-class lectures two years ago, during the height of the pandemic lockdowns, by Peter Winsky. It is published here, for the first time.  As the pandemic wears on, we have begun to enter into a new routine of day-to-day life. With a tangible threat to our and

Love as an Act of Rebellion: Orthodoxy and Literary Culture

The following article, written by Caryl Emerson, was first published in Christian History issue 146 and is republished here with the permission of the author. “When cruelty is the norm, love is an act of rebellion.” This thesis, applied to Christ’s response to the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov (1880), belongs to Dostoevsky scholar