http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thoughthttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/46695/Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:24:05 +0200About the financial sustainability and other challenges of theological institutions we speak with the dean of Leadership Development of the Overseas Council Scott Cunningham.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/46441/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:36:05 +0200The new Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson has been in our country for only a few months. He presented his credentials to the President of Ukraine in November 2011. Our publication spoke with the Vatican ambassador about his impressions of Ukraine and local church life.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/46364/Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:10:28 +0200Ukraine is well acquainted with the old type of colonialism, projected by an imperial state onto a subject population. But today, it may be the object of a new type as well – one practiced not by an alien nation-state, but by a transnational socio-economic and ideological elite.Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/mcherenkov_column/46086/Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:41:03 +0200Christmas is also a judgment on modern Pharisees, pillars of official religiosity. A baptized, but unenlightened Rus, needs a free unpoliticized Church. While the Church and the Kremlin develop the Russian world, Christ does not enter their doors. He is outside the lavish palaces, but with the people.Mhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/46060/Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:51:39 +0200Private Secretary of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on the Patriarch and the current religious situationSociety-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/45973/Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:41:23 +0200“Much of modernity is predicated on an antagonistic relationship between the sacred and the secular. We are proposing that we can move beyond that hostility. We are in a post-secular age now where people are yearning for a sense of meaning. It’s a pilgrimage, with few set answers.”Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/45951/Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:40:18 +0200This time around the guest of My Word is press secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Heorhii KOVALENKO. Although the column is meant for interconfessional interviews, covering a range of issues important for the believers of all churches (and even non-believers), politics also was present here to a certain extent.Society-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/studios/studies_of_religions/45605/Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:09:40 +0200A Review of Trends in Contemporary Islam in the CrimeaReligious studieshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/45468/Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:37:11 +0200Why is the Moscow Patriarchate concerned by the structural development of the UGCC? There are several possible interpretations.Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/open_theme/45125/Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:46 +0200Ukraine is a secular state, and our Constitution clearly says this. But not everybody agrees. Thus, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy initiates the introduction of orthodox projects into school agenda and opening of Ukrainian Orthodox University of Saint Volodymyr.Open themehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/45086/Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:11:01 +0200Charley Warner was one of the first teachers at the Odesa theological seminary. He lived in Ukraine till 1999 and then moved to Austria. During the EAAA conference “10 Years of Theological Education” RISU was able to ask him a few questions about changes in Protestant theological education, developments in modern Protestant theology, and his mission.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/44888/Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:03:21 +0200Inculturation is the process by which a religion, entering a particular culture, takes on some of its features while infusing it with its message. The process is necessary in order to make that message comprehensible to that culture.Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/44928/Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:11:41 +0200Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk discusses his role in fostering ‘unity of action.’Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/open_theme/44887/Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:33:13 +0200Today the Christians of Ukraine face two objective challenges. First, spiritual revival is required as a way out of the regional crisis of the church and social institutes that started already yesterday. Second, one has to find new forms of Christianization of the world as a way out of the global world outlook crisis referred to as postmodern ideology.Open themehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/44867/Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:51:11 +0200The Eastern Churches bear an aspect of the Christian faith that is profound and astonishingly rich, with the power to amaze a culture that wrongly presumes it has seen it all. I also believe our culture is in urgent need of the vast treasure and deep beauty that have been entrusted to these Churches.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/open_theme/44586/Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:24:32 +0200The article “Goodbye, Golden Rose” published by Tom Cross in The Guardian, 2 September on the old synagogue in Lviv, Ukraine, has numerous errors. Some of them were noted by those who responded online. Here I want to draw attention to other mistakes and serious misinterpretations, which, to me, grossly distort the issue under discussion.Open themehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/44412/Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:57:18 +0200One may or may not agree with the respected churchman's evaluation of how history has shaped Ukrainian national character. But few people are likely to be surprised that a Catholic prelate is proceeding on the assumption that democracy is good and desirable.Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/open_theme/44340/Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:25:26 +0200In his commentary to Reuters, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfyeyev) once again reminded about the conflict between Greek Catholics and Orthodox in western Ukraine in the early 90s. As in previous years, this conflict is considered as the main reason it is impossible for a meeting to be held between Patriarch Kirill and Pope Benedict XVI.Open themehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/43919/Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:09:10 +0200This interview is shortened version of the talk with Sara Sievers as part of the project The collapse of the Soviet Union: the Oral History of Independent Ukraine.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/43891/Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:47:42 +0200In this way, the Soviet authorities illustrated their policy towards the Church as an institution. For by sealing it off from society, they sought to prevent ideas and information from either leaving or entering. The Church would no longer affect the way people thought, and it would no longer be affected by knowledge from the outside world.Andrew Sorokowski's column