Global Christianity: The Big Picture In December 2011, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a major study…
My last two “Reflections on Russia” discussed the insights in Paul Froese’s book, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from…
My last “Reflections on Russia” discussed the insights in Paul Froese’s book, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the…
Paul Froese’s book, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization (University of California Press, 2008),…
One of the casualties of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the culture of giving, of charity, that had developed…
Islam is the second largest religion in Russia and is the predominant religion of 28 ethnic groups in the Russian…
Over the past twenty years, the concept of social capital has attracted a great deal of attention among scholars in…
One of the recurring struggles in post-Communist Russia is the heated debate over the rights of religious minorities and the…
When Father Men was brutally murdered in September 1990, he left behind a rich legacy of pastoral counsel and Biblical…
On Sunday, September 9, 1990, Father Alexander Men left his wooden house in Semkhoz early in the morning and headed…