Several years ago, I was leading a group of Americans on a tour through the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. This…
Sometimes I think I ask too many questions when I read the Bible. As I was studying Jesus’ early life…
In an earlier post, “A Surprise Birth” (April 11, 2011) that describes the miraculous birth of Jesus, I comment that…
Statue of Tiberius Jesus had lots of competition. When he traveled around Judea and Galilee preaching about the “Kingdom of…
Recently Hollywood released three major movies which all have Russians as the “bad guys” and which focus on the Cold…
Ninety years ago, Russia experienced a famine that was one of the greatest human disasters in Europe since the Black…
One of the most popular books among Russians in the 1990s was Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, first published…
One of the great classics of world literature is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Bantam Books, 1970), a…
One of the most powerful and insightful dialogues that takes place in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel, The Brother Karamazov, is…
Global Christianity: The Big Picture In December 2011, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a major study…