Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings on the Feast of our Lord’s Epiphany! Many thanks for your letter and the tapes, and especially your transcription of the Dogmatic Theology. We’ve just glanced at the latter, and in general the idea of the footnotes is very good. Yes, such a book is very needed; I’ve just … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ Alexey, A brief note to accompany a new tape of Pomazansky — he just wrote us, by the way, that he’s happy to hear we’ve begun the translation and would very much like to live to see it completed! May it be so, and may God give us the way to … Read more

Dear Father Ephraim, Evologeite! Greetings on the Feast of the Most Holy Theotokos. We read with joy your recent letter to us, and pray that the Elder is recovering well. May God preserve him for many years of fruitful labors in Christ’s vineyard. What we’ve been hearing about the recent Sobor doesn’t strike us too … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We received the two sections on Evolution. “Christian Evolutionism” I read over hastily, and it looks good — probably we can leave any final revisions until the whole article is ready for final form. The “scientific” part, however, Father Herman and I read together … Read more

St. Athanasius of Brest Dear Sister in Christ, Nina, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the approaching feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Rejoice! We don’t know Maria [Kraft] well, and don’t know what you’ve been going through with her. But: unless you are very strong and know very well what you … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Enclosed finally is my re-doing of the chapter on “Christian Evolutionism,” incorporating come suggestions of Father Herman. I think we have finally come to the “next-to-last” version of this part. I think the whole flow of what we want to say is here, with … Read more

Dear Dr. Johnstone, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Concerning Luke Walmsley, we have received from Fr. Neketas two letters (copies) which Luke has recently written him, which are probably similar to the ones you have received. Yes, he writes of experiences which are quite “unusual” — but alas! they are quite true. I will … Read more

Dear Michael [Farnsworth], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. My child, you are deceiving yourself and going the way of perdition. I will not be falsely “kind” and hide this fact from you. You talk about helping others, but you are leading them to perdition. Do you know how much John d’Anci wept when he … Read more

Dear Sister in Christ, Nina, Rejoice in the Lord! Forgive our silence. Things have been very busy. How did you know we were in San Francisco? Actually, it was just Tommy and myself, and we did nothing but pick up the printing press which some Russians gave us (mysterious people, some kind of private detective), … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God, we spent the feast days well, joined by a pilgrim Fr. Neketas sent us, in addition to Thomas and John Kraft. (That boy has problems; what he will be in 6 years we dread to think.) We’ve looked at the … Read more