Orthodoxy arrived in Russia from Byzantium in 988 A.D. at the invitation of Grand Prince Vladimir, who had searched the world for a faith for his people.
"Each second I saw how one of my 'friends' tamed a faith for himself, an ideological or aesthetic position, in the hope that in the end he would become a real writer.
These include The Manhood of the Master (1913), The Secret of Victorious Living (1934), On Being a Real Person (1943), A Faith for Tough Times (1952), and The Living of These Days, an Autobiography (1956).
This willingness to follow out the logic of his own premises, to register doubts about a faith for which he is still celebrated by people who are offended by attempts to understand books as fully and complexly implicated in their historical times, is the finest thing about his work.
Choosing a faith for your ceremony -- and, ultimately, for your home -- is not like choosing a wedding band.
Relevant teachings from Buddhism have been compiled in a Faith for Communication booklet which more than 3,000 monasteries from 880 villages/wards have started to disseminate to promote key family and community practices.
