This journal refuses to follow the fashions of the global elite and its academic cognoscenti. It retains a focus on sobornopravanist–the local agrarian community as the center of Orthodox church life and its manifestation in Old Russia and elsewhere in the Slavic world. This decentralist and medievalist agenda is tightly organized around defending the monastic and ascetic calling of the Orthodox–particularly the life devoted to hesychia–specifically for those who are forced to live and work in the modern west. The Orthodox vision is one of life as struggle, a struggle against the internal passions which distort reason, as well as the modern social and political systems that wish to exploit these passions for power and profit. Both struggles need to be waged simultaneously, for it is a war against the same foe. The purpose of this Journal, therefore, is to provide both theoretical and practical articles and comments on building and understanding the Russian and Orthodox Resistance to the world of capitalist oligarchy, socialist statism and western colonialism.
The present means to sustain the institutional Church are borrowed from the elements of the world, things inimical to the Church, and the consequence will be only to accelerate its fall. Nevertheless, the Lord protects the elect and their limited number will be filled.
St. Ignatii Brianchaniov.
Consider the third temptation that Satan presented to Christ in the desert. Satan took Christ atop a high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the earth in all their glory. And Satan said to Christ, "all this I will give to you if you bow down before me". What did Satan want from Christ? Only one thing: that Christ recognize Satan's authority and submit to it. What did Satan promise Christ in return? Permission to operate freely in the world, subject only to Satan's approval, of course. Fr. Nikita Gregoriev
