This paper presents a ‘virtual roundtable’, compiled from the written interviewswith blogging Orthodox priests and religious activists. They relate their experiences and reflections on digitalization of the Orthodox religion, challenges and promises which theChurch encounters in the internet. Their direct speech is framed by the introduction, in whichstrategies of self-presentations in ‘Ortho-blogs’ are surveyed.
Re-published in Mikhail Suslov, ed, 2016, Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Web 2.0. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. P. 285-299.