Fr John Nankivell answers the question of why Christians today should read the great Fathers of the Fourth Century such as SS John Chrysostom, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa. Giving an overview of their lives and writings, he looks at what we can learn from their approaches and how we can apply this to our own lives.

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil.

Иисус учил своих последователей, что легче верблюду пройти через игольное ушко, нежели богатому войти в Царство Небесное. Тем не менее, ко времени падения Рима, Церковь стала богатой сверх меры. «Сквозь Игольное Ушко» - это  развернутая интеллектуальная и социальная история неприятной темы наличия богатства в христианстве в последние дни существования Римской империи, написанная сообществом ученых поздней античности. Питер Браун рассматривает возрастание Церкви через призму денег и тех вызовов, которые они бросили Церкви, поддерживающей добродетель нестяжания и называющей алчность корнем всех зол.  

On the occasion of the Russian Day of National Unity, the Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow and all Russia has spoken in an interview with Itar-Tass about Russia’s future, bribes, and the most signficant event of the year 2012.

In the suburban town of Dubna, Russia's largest center of nuclear physics, the 15th "Science – Philosophy – Religion" Conference has been held, organised by the Foundation of St. Andrew, the Institute of Philosophy and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR).

From the editor of Bogoslov.Ru, a reflection on suffering, the awareness of life's brevity, and how they can help us live our lives.

On September 22, 2012, the Church and the World program on the Russia 24 TV channel had as its guest Alexander Arkhangelsky, author, publicist and television presenter. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, talked with him.

September 3-4, 2012, Dürres, Albania. Hegumen Philip Ryabykh, Representative of Russian Orthodox Church in Strasbourg, participated and made a presentation at the Panel discussion entitled “Raising young people’s awareness of common values and their transmission: the role of parents for education, interaction between the family and educators, intergenerational relations”. The panel took place in the context of the Council of Europe 2012 Exchange on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue “Taking responsibility for tomorrow’s Europe: the role of young people in the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue”.

Beginning from this September, the Church and the World talk-show on Russia-24 channel will come out in a new format. Now a part of the program is allocated to a talk of Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Church relations, with guests. On September 15, 2012, the Church and the World program had as a guest Mr. N. Svanidze, a television journalist and historian, Director of the Mass Media Institute of the Russian State University of the Humanities.

On September 9, 2012, the Russia NV channel showed an interview His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia gave to journalist Dmitry Kiselev.

In this essay, written as a submission to the Theological Committee of the Episcopal Assembly of Orthodox Bishops for Great Britain and Ireland, Fr Gregory Hallam examines the role of the diaconate in the Orthodox Church today in the light of its historical development, and calls for its renewal for the benefit of the Church and the world. Fr Gregory is Dean of the Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

In Inner River, Kyriacos Markides—scholar, researcher, author, and pilgrim—takes us on a thrilling quest into the heart of Christian spirituality and mankind’s desire for a transcendent experience of God. From Maine’s rugged shores to a Cypriot monastery to Greece’s remote Mt. Athos and, ultimately, to an Egyptian desert, Markides encounters a diverse cast of characters that allows him to explore the worlds of the natural and the supernatural, of religion and spirit, and of the seen and the unseen.