AFTER THE YAROVAYA LAWS: THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE “TRADITIONAL VALUES” INTERNATIONAL AT A CROSSROADS

Christopher Stroop, Public Orthodoxy

One of the strangest aspects of Vladimir Putin’s third term as president of the Russian Federation has been the emergence of Russia as the global standard bearer for so-called “traditional values.”

CHRISTOPHER STROOP COULD ORTHODOXY BE HAVING ITS VATICAN II MOMENT?

By Christopher Stroop June 20, 2016, Religion Dispatches

For the next week, hierarchs from most of the world’s individual Orthodox Christian Churches will convene for a Holy and Great Pan-Orthodox Council on the island of Crete, an event that many have been calling Orthodoxy’s Vatican II.