Post Series: Ukraine

The Russian Mennonites After England last week, we will now travel to a small city of Ukraine called Molochansk. It is located at slightly over 600 km South-East of the capital Kiev and less than 100 km from the Sea of Azov. The city lies near the Molochna river. We are in a particularly flat…

When the communists took control of the Soviet Union in 1917, their intention was to build an atheist nation and erase Christianity from the collective memory. But even the terrible persecutions under Joseph Stalin didn’t succeed in wiping out churches with onion domes.  In fact, when Communism took over, Christianity had been present in the…

Nowadays, evangelization is often understood as preaching the gospel to non-believers. But this understanding lacks a broader societal perspective. Is it possible for a Christian nation to evangelise a non-Christian nation? Actually in the Old Testament we discover that it was God’s purpose for Israel to inspire other nations towards Himself. And in European history,…

Vladimir the Great is considered to be the prince that Christianised the Eastern Slavic nations. But why was his contribution so significant? This is what we are going to explore in the third stage of this miniseries searching for traces of how the Gospel spread among the Eastern Slavic nations. For this stage we are…

The powerful and the wealthy played a significant role in Christianizing the Eastern Slavic lands. But believing that this process was top-down would be a mistake. For another movement, outside of political power structures, impacted the common people more deeply: monasticism. In this last stage of a miniseries dedicated to the spread of the Gospel…