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How to recognize Christians

How to recognize Christians

Oct 18, 2011

Christians cannot be distinguished from the rest of the human race by country or language or customs. They do not live in cities of their own; they do not use a peculiar form of speech; they do not follow an eccentric manner of life...

Where Two or Three Are Gathered in My Name

Where Two or Three Are Gathered in My Name

Sep 8, 2011

An encounter with Life in a Soviet death camp. During one of the winters, a young man was assigned to Father Arseny's barracks. Still young, he did not fully understand what lay ahead of him...

Fr. George Calciu: First Century Christian in the Twentieth Century

Fr. George Calciu: First Century Christian in the Twentieth Century

Apr 28, 2011

George Calciu was imprisoned by Communists in Romania in 1948, where he was subjected to 1984-style mind control experiments—tortured until he denied Christ, and then forced to torture others toward the same end. “They wanted our souls,” he recalled, “not our bodies.”