[No Truce With Kings]

Back in the ninties a friend of mine went to Kiev with a group from his Baptist Church to Christianize the Atheistic Russians. I told him to be sure to visit the churches and catacombs there -- that he was about 1000 years too late to Christianize them, even if the Soviet government had been atheistic. Even then, the upsurge in religion in Russia was heartening.

[No Truce With Kings]

Orthodoxy Ping

[No Truce With Kings]

You want to do a space ping?

[No Truce With Kings]

NASA

A Russian Orthodox priest gives a traditional blessing to Michael Foale, left, Alexander Kaleri, center, and Pedro Duque, on Oct. 18, 2003, shortly before the three men launched from Baikonur to the international space station. The now customary ceremony was revolutionary when it began in 1994.

[A. Pole]

There is a small wooden Russian church in Antarctica:

[Teletubbed]

"Russian space city builds new route to heavens"

A new route?

I always thought it's up?

[RusIvan]

“Man can go into space, that’s good," he told the newspaper. "He can view unbounded horizons, other planets, and appreciate how wisely this entire gigantic “mechanism” was constructed, in which everything is computed literally to the millimeter. And every sane person, discovering all this knowledge himself must say, 'Glory to Thee, O Lord, Who hast so wondrously made it all.'”

Very true words.