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A popular Russian legend tells how St. Nicolas and St. Cassian were upon a visit to the earth. On their journey they met a poor peasant who had got his wagon, with a load of hay upon it, stuck in the mud and was making fruitless efforts to get his horses on. 'Let's go and give the good fellow a hand,' said St. Nicolas. 'Not I; I'm keeping out of it,' replied St. Cassian, 'I don't want to get my coat dirty.' 'Well, wait for me,' said St. Nicolas, 'or go on without me if you like,' and plunging without...

Soloviev's AmenA Russian Orthodox Argument for the Papacyby Rev. Ray Ryland During the past six or seven centuries, succeeding pontiffs have repeatedly invited the separated Eastern Churches to return to communion with Rome. The few responses from the East have been negative - with only one exception, as far as I can determine. One member of an Eastern Orthodox Church responded positively in print... a Russian Orthodox layman named Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900). Soloviev was a philosopher, a theologian, a poet, a mystic, a political thinker, and a literary cricit. In The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, Hans Urs...