Early Church Fathers – The Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers at Calvin College, downloadable in html, WinHelp.zip, text, text.zip and/or pdf format. A great place to get started reading the Church Fathers - try Justin Martyr's description of how the early Church worshipped, copied to our website: click here! (in English and Russian.)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library – If you have a CD-ROM drive, why waste hours and hours of time downloading the above? On one CD-ROM you get several Bibles, the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Bible commentaries, works of Luther, Calvin, Wesley and many other public-domain Christian classics, and the Alta Vista search engine, all for $29.95.
Keston Institute, the world-famous research center in Oxford, England, founded by Anglican Canon Michael Bourdeaux, has been reporting on religious freedom in the former Soviet Union and satellite countries since the late 1960's.
Forum 18 News Service resumed the frequent reporting on religious freedom in the former Soviet Union and satellite countries that was dropped by Keston News Service in 2003. Free email subscriptions are available at their site.
Fr. Georgii Chistyakov's article, copied to our website, "Whence This Anger?" (in English and Russian) which offers penetrating insights into the struggles of Russian Orthodoxy against "foreign sects" instead of atheism and paganism at home.
The East-West Church & Ministry Report, edited by Dr. Mark Elliott of Southern Wesleyan University, has several sample articles and a searchable archive of all articles more than one year old on their website.
The Chapel and Ministry of Mercy at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Moscow, founded by Fr. Alexander Men and presently run by Fr. Georgii Chistyakov, is a shining example of showing Christ's love in practical ways.
Bradford Barnes' Web Site – Defense of Orthodox doctrines by a former Evangelical, testimonies of Evangelicals who have converted to Orthodoxy, etc.
"Why I'm Not Orthodox" – Article in Christianity Today by Prof. Daniel Clendenin, an Evangelical who has edited two books about Orthodoxy.
Fr. Alexander Schmemann has lots to say that sounds quite evangelical!
Father Alexander's Web Site – Booklets About Orthodoxy in English and Russian.
The article "Mission In Post-Perestroika Russia" by Johannes Reimer, a protestant of German descent who was raised in Russia, gives penetrating insight into the failure of Western missions to comprehend the Russian soul, and offers excellent alternative approaches.
Travelling to Russia? First you need a passport, then a "Letter Of Invitation" and a visa (this is on our website). But please don't go until you've read the above article by Reimer!