Tag Archives: Russian Orthodox Church

50 Years Ago, Solzhenitsyn Received the Nobel Prize for Reminding Us of a ‘Forgotten God’

Posted on October 23, 2020 by David E Smith

“In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly odd start for a classic on the Soviet gulag, the nation’s forced labor camps. Readers initially wonder where the author is headed with a sort of ho-hum report from not a political journal but a science journal.

Posted in Faith | Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsy, blasphemy, Comrade Bek, Comrade Longinov, Comrade Lunin, Kim Davis, Leon Trotsky, Nobel Prize in Literature, Obergefell, Patriarch Tikhon, Paul G. Kengor, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet gulag, The Gulag Archipelago, Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin | Comments Off

Religious Persecution: Coming to America?

Posted on September 6, 2016 by David E Smith

In 1929, Josef Stalin signed a law that dealt a devastating blow to religious freedom in Russia. For most of a century, Russian Christians suffered enormous persecutions for their faith. Some estimates suggest that as many as 20,000,000 Christians may have been martyred in prison camps in the 20^th century for holding to their faith. One historian stated that over 85,000 Russian Orthodox Priests were shot in 1937 alone.

Communism, despite its slogans of equality and social utopia, has never come through on its promises. Stalin’s draconian measures were reaffirmed by Leonid Brezhnev’s updated legislation in 1975. A …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged ACLU, American Atheists, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Anthony Scailia, Boris Yeltsin, Christian Persecution, Dr. Albert Mohler, Dr. Erwin Lutzer, Eric Metaxas, Jerry Johnson, Josef Stalin, KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Dawkins, Ronald Reagan, Russell Moore, Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin | Comments Off