Hey guys, this is my podcast where I share my experience on working with Amazon FBA tu build an e-commerce business. It’s a project I decided to start in the beginning of 2018 and on this podcast, I will try to share everything I can, good or bad, and try to bring as much value to you as I can. Thanks for tuning it even for a minute. Cover art photo provided by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@helloimnik
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On the occasion of the exhibition Splendour and Glory: Art of the Russian Orthodox Church in Hermitage Amsterdam (19 March – 16 September 2011) a special lecture series was held in the museum. The Amsterdam Centre for Orthodox Theology (ACOT) of VU University Amsterdam organized this series of four times two academic lectures. The lectures were given on the following dates: 26 March: Revd. Dr. Michael Bakker and Revd. Prof. Andrew Louth (general introduction and introduction to Russian Ortho ...
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Hey podcast, in this episode, I share a little bit about where I’m at with the project (day 7 of the launch). Sorry I haven’t recorded anything for a while. Hope this brings value.
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The very first episode of this podcast!! I’m excited to be able to share all that I learn with Amazon FBA, the ups and downs, and any intriguing insight. I try to make this one as short as possible so that you can get a taste and see if you want to continue listening in the future. Thank you for any attention whatsoever!…
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Monasticism and Spirituality
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This lecture consists of an overview of Orthodox monasticism. The followingsubjects are treated:- Judaism: Essenes- Celibacy in the Gospels and the Early Church- The Egyptian Desert, Palestine and Syria- Mount Athos- Monasticism in the Slavic world- St Seraphim of Sarov- The elders of Optina- Contemporary Monasticism…
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One of the features of Russian Orthodox Christianity has been theprominence of monasteries. Soon after the conversion of Russia there wasfounded the monastery of the Caves in Kiev; later on, there was establishedby St Sergei of Radonezh the famous monastery of the Trinity (now called theSergei-Trinity Lavra) outside Moscow. Monasticism had been a f…
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The Many Voices of Russia: A Survey of Russian Choral Music
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This lecture presents a survey of the history of Russian polyphonic choral music, from the earliest experiments at two-and three-part writing in the 17th century to the work of contemporary composers such as Dimitriev and Genin, and including the repertories influence variously by Polish-Ukrainian music and German and Italian styles, the change in …
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It is claimed by the Russian Primary Chronicle that it was the experience of the Divine Liturgy in the church of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople that persuaded the ambassadors of Prince Vladimir to recommend the adoption of Orthodoxy: ‘we knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth… We only know that there God dwells among men’. The experience…
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After a general introduction to the course and information about the practical arrangements, the following subjects will be treated:- The early church and the Eastern Orthodox Church - The Roman Empire and Byzantium - The Old (Church) Slavic language and Russian - Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets - The texts initially translated from Greek into Ol…
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The icon as a living tradition: Diversity within unity in Russian iconography
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The icon tradition is rooted in timeless theological truths, which are summarized in the formula of St Athanasius the Great that God became man so that man, by grace, can become god. These truths have informed not only the use but also the style of Orthodox icons over the centuries. This unity of purpose and inspiration explains why we can so readi…
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One of the features of Russian Orthodoxy that most strikes Westerners when they encounter Orthodoxy is the prominence of icons, or sacred images. The Russians inherited from Byzantine Orthodoxy a sense of the importance of images in worship, both public and private, that had been enhanced by the 3 iconoclast controversy of the eighth to ninth centu…
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The traditional date in the Christianization of Russia is 988, the year of the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kiev. Vladimir received Christianity from the Byzantine Empire (traditionally, after investigating the religious beliefs and practices of neighbouring countries). By the tenth century, Byzantine Christianity was an elaborate construction of …
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