"Baptism of Rus'-Ukraine" by Petro Andrusiv When I left Chicago, my church family gave me this poster. 'You have to remember where you come from,' they said. The poster, which now hangs above my desk at home, commemorates the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. It does indeed help me think through some of the thorny issues of being in the Kyivan Church, especially on a day like this. We hear often, for example, from our Latin sisters and brothers that we Greek-Catholics and Orthodox are...

November 1. In this Kyivan Church of ours, we remember not only the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian (and oh, do we need them in this...

Here where I am, it is already 1 October, the Feast of the Protecting Mantle of the Mother of God. Let me bear witness this day to her protection as we speak the name of Breonna Taylor, whose blood still cries out from the ground for justice. This is the day we celebrate when St Andrew Fool-for-Christ saw the Theotokos descend from the dome of the church of Blachernae as vespers was being offered for the holy city of Constantinople under attack 'by Ukrainian pirates,' as my spiritual father...