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Orthodoxy Without Christ

Sergei Chapnin

Sergei Chapnin, author of the First Things article “A Church of Empire” was recently fired from his post at the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate for criticizing the patriarchate’s policies. On...

​A Church Of Empire

Sergei Chapnin

I joined the Russian Church late in 1989, becoming actively involved in its life soon thereafter. This was two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, and times...