Fr. Thomas Hopko speaks at St. Elijah about Christianity and Armageddon. This is a great presentation for Orthodox, particularly living in the United States. Our ideas of the End Times is so heavily influenced by Protestantism that we usually don't understand the Orthodox position on these points very well.

The greek-orthodox easter hymn "Christos Anesti" ("Christ is risen") performed by Vangelis and sung by actress Irene Papas. Track from the 1986 Vangelis CD "Rapsodies". Scenes from the films: Night to Light, Baraka, Chronos, Engineering an Empire: The Byzantines, 2, Eurovision 2006, Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony, BBC Time Machine, BBC Planet Earth. For higher video quality and stereo sound, add &fmt=18 at the end of the url of the video.

In a small village in Russia's Nizhniy Novgorod region, a 15-year-old boy holds regular church services and explains the basics of Christianity to the locals.

The first phase of testing a new software is called monkey testing. That's when you just send a bunch of garbage data and click around on panels trying to cause the system to crash. If it survives the monkeys, then you actually start trying to do real work. My recent article on Open Source reminded of this little video that circulated our office during our last development cycle. For us in the business of software, this is just plain funny!

Now that American foreign policy has finally given us an independent Kosovo, I think it is very important for Americans to remember how the Orthodox Christians and Orthodox holy places have fared. In this video, an Albanian mob can be seen burning and ransacking a Christian Church in Kosovo, just one of hundreds similarly destroyed.

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