ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY THEN AND NOW

Every devout Orthodox Christian has either read or heard about the book The Way of a Pilgrim . The book describes the journeys of a Russian...

Holy Martyr Ardalion the Mime (Feast Day - April 14) By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas Saint Ardalion lived at the end of the t...

There is a persistent myth that Nikos Kazantzakis was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church. This is not true. Despite the very contr...

Charles Dickens writes in A Christmas Carol , describing the spirit of Jacob Marley when he appears to his business partner in life Ebeneez...

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Orson Welles discussing Chartres Cathedral in a monologue/eulogy on authorship, art and existence. From the 1974 film essay F for Fake . ...

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a prolific Danish author and poet, who "introduced the idea of fantasy into children's sto...

Nobody wrote in such an authentic Romaic manner on the great themes of Christianity as Alexandros Papadiamantis, "The Saint of Greek L...

Ivan Shmelyov or Shmelev (1873-1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutiona...

Lord Byron was born January 22, 1788, and died at the age of thirty-six in Missolonghi, Greece on April 19, 1824, (the day after Easter Sun...

A Christmas Carol (1971) is a 25-minute animated cartoon adaptation of Charles Dickens' book which was originally shown on Dec 21, 1...

"My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know abo...

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was heavily adapted from the ...

Papa Panov, an old shoemaker almost too blind to thread a needle, has a dream that Jesus will visit him on Christmas Day. He anxiously an...

The Story of the Other Wise Man is a short novel or long short story by Henry van Dyke. It was initially published in 1895 and has been...

By Gene Edward Veith One of the first explicitly Christian discussions of literature was The Apology for Poetry written in the sixteenth ...

Jason Zinoman July 16, 2011 The New York Times WITH gruesome television series about vampires, werewolves, serial killers and zombies earn...