The Report serves as a clearinghouse for information relevant to the status of Christianity
and Western ministry in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 10, No. 1 - Winter 2002

• DAVID BARNES, IRINA KARGINA, and MARK ELLIOTT, "Protestants in the Former Soviet Union:  What Survey Findings Reveal," 1-3
• "Church Strength in Ukraine," 3-5
• ANATOLY KOLODNY, "Churches in Ukraine Today: At Odds with Each Other; At Odds with the State," 5-6
• LYUDMYLA O. FILIPOVYCH, "Understanding Nontraditional Religiosity in Ukraine," 6-7
• HOWARD L. BIDDULPH, "Interconfessional Intolerance in Ukraine," 7-9
• TIMOTHY A. BYRNES, "Catholicism in Postcommunist Europe Today," 9-11
• DANIEL CHIROT, "Is There a Correlation between Religious Confession and Economic Vitality?" 11
• "Rating Religious Liberty in Post-Soviet States," 12
• KIMMO KÄÄRIÄINEN and DMITRII FURMAN, "Orthodoxy as a Component of Russian Identity," 12-13
• DARRELL COSDEN, "A Post-Soviet Evangelical Theology," 14
• PATRICK JOHNSTONE and JASON MANDRYK, "Non-Indigenous Protestant Missionaries in Post-Soviet States, 1994-2001," 15
• TREVOR R.H. WARNER, "Post-Soviet and Third World Contextualization," 16

• Internet Resources
SHARYL CORRADO and JASON FERENCZI, compilers, 17
• Resources
Freedom of Religion, A Report with Special Emphasis on the Right to Choose Religion and Registration Systems, 18
"Increasing Religious Intolerance against Minority Religions in Europe and Eurasia," 18
• Editorial
MARK ELLIOTT, "East European Missions: Taking Stock of the First Post-Soviet Decade," 20, 19

East-West Church & Ministry Report
Vol. 10, No. 2 - Spring 2002

• YAKOV KROTOV, "Religion and the Russian Press Since 1990," 1-4
• "Russian Press Treatment of Religion," 3
• TIBERIUS RATA, "Theological Education in Romania," 5-6
• Evangelical Press Association Award, 6
• OVIDIU TAMAS, "Orthodox Pastoral Possibilities in Post-Communist Romania," 7
• MARK ELLIOTT, "Guidelines for Guest Preaching, Teaching, and Cross-Cultural Communication," 8-12
• STAS KARASSEV, "Characteristics of Effective and Ineffective Ministry in Russia," 13
• Correction, 14
• PAUL MOJZES, "Report of the Belgrade Roundtable," 14

• Review
"Mapping Russia: Geographic and Cultural Diversity," by Arthur Khachikian, 15
• Editorial
GERALDINE FAGAN, "State-Inspired Communion among 'Traditional' Religions," 16

East-West Church & Ministry Report
Vol. 10, No. 3 - Summer 2002

• FRANK DAWSON, "Christian Outreach to Romany in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia," 1-3
• Published Resources, 3-4
• Recommended Reading, 4
• Romany Ministry Web Sites, 4
• Selected Ministries and Individuals Working among Romany, 4-6
• Ministry to Roma: From the Editor's Files, 6
• Roma Demographics, 7
• FELIX CORLEY and LATCHEZAR POPOV, "Evangelical Christians in Bulgaria," 8-9
• A Bulgarian Church and Missions Chronology, 9
• YAKOV KROTOV, "Religion and the Russian Press Since 1990: Journalists Most Actively Writing on Church Subjects," 10-13
• PAVEL RYNDICH, "Stumbling Block to Stepping Stone," 16

• Resources
"Witnessing to People of Eastern Orthodox Background: Turning Barriers of Belief into Bridges of Personal Faith," 13
Together in Mission: Orthodox Churches Consult with the Church Mission Society, 25-30 April 2001, 14
"Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov v kontse xx veka" [The Russian Orthodox Church at the End of the Twentieth Century], by Sergei Safronov, 14-15
The Magazine Training Institute (MTI), 15
English Teaching as Christian Mission: An Applied Theology, by Donald Snow, 15-16

East-West Church & Ministry Report
Vol. 10, No. 4 - Fall 2002

• MARK ELLIOTT, "Religious Instruction in Russian Schools: The Debate Heats Up," 1
• "Most Muscovites Oppose Religious Education in Schools," 1
• FEDOR KOZYREV, "Religious Education in Russian Schools," 2-3
• IRINA BILL, "Religion in Public Schools: First Protestant, Now Orthodox," 4
• SVETLANA KULESHOVA, "'A Time to Cast Away Stones and a Time to Gather Stones Together.'" 5
• IGOR PONKIN, "Religion in Russian Schools:  Taking a Lesson from France," 5-6
• ELENA MIROSHNIKOVA, "Second Thoughts on Religious Education," 6-7
• Point/Counterpoint
INNA NALETOVA, "Forgiving or Forgetting? Rethinking the Soviet Past: An Orthodox Christian Perspective," 8, 10
FATHER GEORGI EDELSTEIN, "Thoughts on the Current Situation in the Moscow Patriarchate: Hypocrisy, Servility, or Complete Indifference to the Fate of Religion?" 9, 11-12
• SERGEI MARKEDONOV, "The 'Orthodoxation' of Russia," 12
• FATHER GEORGI EDELSTEIN, "On Orphans, Spiritual Restoration, Repentance, and Religious Legislation," 13-15
• DAVID JOHNSTONE, "Key Challenges Before the Post-Soviet Church: A Synopsis," 15
• FATHER GEORGI EDELSTEIN, "'. . . Of Such Is the Kingdom'," 16

• Resources
The Territories of the Russian Federation, edited by Philip Hanson and Michael J. Bradshaw, 16
Human Rights Without Frontiers, 16

East-West Church & Ministry Report
Vol. 11, No. 1 - Winter 2003

• KENT R. HILL, "If There Is No God, All Is Permitted," 1-2
• IRINA SANDUL, "Funding Church Reconstruction," 2
• LAUREN B. HOMER, "International Guarantees of Liberty and the Slippery Slope of Restrictions on Radical Islam in Kazakhstan and Russia," 3-5
• MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT, "Attempts to 'Manage' Islam in Central Asia," 6
• STANLEY S. HARAKAS, "Difficulties in the Orthodox-Western Encounter: An Orthodox Ethicist Shares Two Contrasting Perspectives," 7-9
• PAWEL ZALECKI, "The Polish Light-Life Movement and the Roman Catholic Church," 9-10
• PAUL FROESE and STEVEN PFAFF, "Polish Catholicism: Without Its Communist Opponent, Less Monolithic," 10
• PAWEL ZALECKI, "Polish New Religious Movements," 11
• I.V. PODBEREZSKII, "A Russian Note on Protestant Theological Education," 11
• CONSTANTIN V. LYSAKOV, "It Is a Twelve-Round Bout... And We Have Just Entered the First Round," 16

• Book Reviews
Trofimchuk, Nikolai and M. P. Svishchev. Ekspansiya [Expansionism] (Reviewed by LAWRENCE A. UZZELL), 12
NATHANIEL DAVIS, "An Ambitious New Study of Religion in Russia Today," 13-14
Modern Russian Theology - Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov: Orthodox Theology in a New Key (Reviewed by SCOTT LINGENFELTER), 14
Avgustin (Nikitin), Archimandrit. Metodizm i Pravoslavie [Methodism and Orthodoxy] (Reviewed by SERGEI V. NIKOLAEV), 15

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 11, No. 2 - Spring 2003

• J. ROBERT JACOBSEN, "What Lutherans and Other Protestants Can Learn from Orthodox Christians," 1-2
• BRADLEY NASSIF, "What Orthodox Christians Can Learn From Evangelical Christians," 3-4
• VALERIA SOROKINA, "Lutherans in Russia," 5-7
• SERGEI B. FILATOV and ALEKSANDRA STYOPINA, "Russian Lutheranism: Between Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism," 7-9
• "Evangelical Lutheran Church Addresses in the Former Soviet Union," 9
• MARK J. HARRIS, "Evangelical Missions in Russia: How They Are Misunderstood and the Opportunities That Remain," 10-11
• CONSTANTINE PROKHOROV, "Christian Roots as a Missionary Strategy in Kazakhstan," 11
• MARSH MOYLE, "A Seismic Shift in Christian Publishing," 12-13
• MARK ELLIOTT, "The East-West Church & Ministry Report: History, Coverage, and Readership," 14-15
• CONNIE ROBBINS and RODNEY HAMMER, "Giving Guidelines for Russian Short-Term Missions," 16

• Resource Notes (reviewed by JENA ABBOTT)
  
Peter Lowman, Perceptions of a Great Country: Hunches and Pointers in Understanding Russia, 4
Religious Life in Russia: Digest of the Press, 4
• Book Reviews
Tserkvy i religiini organizatsii Ukrainy u 2001 rotsi [Churches and Religious Organizations of Ukraine in 2001], (Reviewed by VITALIY BAK), 9
Sharon Linzey, editor. Christianity in Russia and Post Communist Europe, 2003 (Reviewed by SHARYL CORRADO), 13

• MARK ELLIOTT, "The Trauma of the Soviet Era," 1-2
• NABI ABDULLAEV, "Coping With Crisis," 3
• LAWRENCE KLIPPENSTEIN, "Conscientious Objectors in Eastern Europe Through 1989," 3-5
• KATY MORROW STIGERS and MARK R. ELLIOTT, "Conscientious Objection in Post-Soviet States," 6-10
• ZYGMUNT P. KAREL, "The Polish Light-Life Movement: Another Perspective," 11
• Point/Counterpoint
  VLADIMIR SOLODOVNIKOV, "Made in America: Or the Self-Evident Truth That Russians Aren't Savages," 12, 14
  EKATERINA SMYSLOVA, "Welcome to Russia: In Response to Vladimir Solodovnikov," 13, 15
• MURRAY FESHBACH, "Russia's Demographic Decline," 16, 15

• Book Review
Jacob D. Lindy and Robery Jay Lifton, eds., Behind Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients (Reviewed by DENNIS O. BOWEN), 2

• MARK R. ELLIOTT, "Russian Restrictions on Missionary Visas," 1-4
• FELIX CORLEY, "A Survey of Current Religious Rights Infringements," 5-6
• "Problems and Needs of the Church in Uzbekistan," 7-8
• VIKTOR ARTEMOV, "Christian Camping in Russia," 8-10
• JUDITH E. LINGENFELTER and SHERWOOD G. LINGENFELTER, "Teaching Cross-Culturally," 16

• Letters to the Editor
Anonymous, 11
Danut Manastireanu, 11
• Resources
"An Anonymous American Missionary Responds to Lawrence Uzzell's Review of Ekspansiya [Expansionism], 11
Valentin Teodorescu, Romania Christian Internet Resources, 12-13
• Book Reviews
Theological Reflections (Reviewed by OLEG TURLAC), 13
Robert P. Geraci and Michael Khodarkovsky, eds. Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia (Reviewed by SHARYL CORRADO), 14
Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2003, 14

• MARY RABER, "Discerning Joy from Sorrow: Reflecting on Changes Among Ukrainian Evangelicals Since Independence," 1-4
• EDMUND J. RYBARCZYK, "Pentecostalism and Eastern Orthodoxy," 4-5
• SHARON MUMPER, "Christian Magazines in Eastern Europe," 6-8
• ELIZABETH KENDAL, "Defining Proselytism," 8
• MARK R. ELLIOTT, "The Lord's Prayer Across Cultures: Ever Comforting, Ever Convicting," 9-10
• ALEXANDER ZAICHENKO, "Authority as a Political Resource of the Russian Orthodox Church," 11
• WESLEY H. BROWN, "An International Educator Reflects on Teaching Cross-Culturally," 16, 15

• Resources
Rough Justice: Law and Human Rights in the Russian Federation, 10-11
• Book Reviews
Kizenko, Nadieszda. A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Reviewed by SHARYL CORRADO), 12
Paulson, Hank. Global Partnerships, Networking and Nationals; The Third Paradigm in Missions (Reviewed by ANITA DEYNEKA, 12-13
Getz, Howard G. The CoMission: One View (Reviewed by PERRY L. GLANZER), 13

• Letters to the Editor
Romanian and Russian Responses to Vladimir Solodnikov, 14-15
Al Akimoff, 15

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 12, No. 2 - Spring 2004

• ADRIAN DORAN GIORGIOV, "Pastoral Burnout and How to Avoid It," 1-2
• DENNIS BOWEN and D. RUSSELL BISHOP, "Training Pastoral Counselors in Russia," 3-5
• "Ethics and Religion: East-West Comparisons," 6
• JAN KERKHOFS, "East-West Moral and Religious Values," 6-7
• "History of the European Values Study," 7
• LOEK HALMAN and JAN KERKHOFS, "The Third European Values Study (1999-2000): Selected Findings on Religion and Ethics," 8
• "What Is Ethical/Unethical?," 9
• ELENA I. BASHKIROVA, "The Extent of Religious Belief and Practice in Russia," 9
• JERRY G. PANKHURST, "Is European Secularism the Exception to the Rule?," 10
• JOHN N. KLASSEN, "Russian-German Mission Work in the East," 10-12
• OLEG P. TURLAC, "Moldovan Evangelicals: Struggling to Overcome a Fortress Mentality and Emigration," 13-14
• MARK R. ELLIOTT, "The Lord's Prayer Across Cultures: Ever Comforting, Ever Convicting," 16, 15

• Book Reviews
Bibliologia 1.0 CD-ROM (Reviewed by OLEG P. TURLAC), 2
Religion in Eastern Europe (Reviewed by OLEG P. TURLAC), 5
Aagarrd, Anna Marie, and Peter Bouteneff. Beyond the East-West Divide: The World Council of Churches and "the Orthodox Problem" (reviewed by DON FAIRBAIRN, 14-15.

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 12, No. 3 - Summer 2004

• PAUL MOJZES, "The Destruction of Serbian Orthodox Holy Places in Kosovo," 1-3
• ROMAN LUNKIN, "Traditional Pentecostals in Russia," 4-7
• ANATOLY KRASIKOV, "Religious Freedom as a Condition for Russia's Revival," 8
• LAWRENCE UZZELL, "Religious Freedom and the National Interest," 8
• SCOTT KLINGSMITH, "Hungarian Missionary Sending Efforts: A Case Study," 9-12
• ALEX N. GRIGOR’EV, "A Peacemaker President," 13-14
• PETER PENNER, "Mission Education in Central and Eastern Europe," 14
• JUERG OPPRECHT, "Business 'Salt and Light' in Kyrgyzstan," 14-15
• JAMES BILLINGTON, "Orthodoxy, Civil Society, and Democracy in Russia: A Meeting Report," 16

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 12, No. 4 - Fall 2004

• ROMAN LUNKIN, "The Russian Security Service Versus Western Missionaries," 1-3
• SCOTT LINGENFELTER, "A Comparison of Russian Orthodox and Evangelical Social Doctrine," 3-5
• PETER MITSKEVICH, "Problems I See with Theological Education," 5-6
• OLEG P. TURLAC, "Moldovan Outreach to Central Asia and Russia," 7-8
• SHARON MUMPER, "Christian Magazine Publishing in the Former Soviet Union," 9-10
• Report Highlights Religious Liberty Abuses, 11-13
• SCOTT KLINGSMITH, "Missionary Sending Movements in East-Central Europe: A Romanian-Albanian Case Study," 16, 15

• Letters to the Editor
Sharon Mumper, 8
Larry Uzzell, 14
Hank Paulson, 14

• Book Review
Caldwell, Melissa L. Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia (Reviewed by CHERYL K. HOSKEN), 14

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 13, No. 1 - Winter 2005

• ROMAN LUNKIN, "The Charismatic Movement in Russia," 1-3
• ROMAN LUNKIN, "Pentecostal and Charismatic Statistics and Why They Should Be Used With Caution," 3-5
• SVETLANA SOLODOVNIK and NIKITA SOKOLOV, "What Are They Teaching Our Kids," 6-7
• DAVID NOVAK, "Czech Evangelicals and Evangelism," 8-10
• ANDREI E. BLINKOV, "Protestant Church Growth in Russia," 10-12
• SCOTT KLINGSMITH, "Missionary Sending Movements: A Polish Case Study," 12-15
• OLEG P. TURLAC, "A Response to Peter Mitskevich on Theological Education," 15-16

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 13, No. 2 - Spring 2005

• MARK R. ELLIOTT, "Christian Responses to Trafficking in Women from Eastern Europe," 1-4
• FATHER VENIAMIN (NOVIK), "The Russian Orthodox Church and the Problem of Modernization," 4
• NATALIA POTAPOVA, "Contemporary Religious Life on Sakhalin Island," 5-6
• SCOTT LINGENFELTER, "Prophets & Patriots: Russian Pentecostal Social Doctrine," 7
• WESLEY H. BROWN, "Open-Air Czech Bible Reading Draws A Crowd," 7
• SCOTT KLINGSMITH, "The Romanian International Mission: A Case Study," 8-9
• SCOTT KLINGSMITH, "Advantages Romanians Bring to Missions," 10-11
• TIM PROCHNAU, "The State of the Church in Romania: Divergent Views," 11-12
• MONIKA CSISZER, "Hungarian Church Ministries Among Roma," 16
• ANNE-MARIE KOOL, Church Planting: A Compliment and a Warning, 16

• Book Reviews
  Nassif, Bradley, et al. Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism (Reviewed by DON FAIRBAIRN), 12-13
  Sannikov, Sergei Viktorovich. Dvadtsat' vekov Khristianstva [Twenty Centuries of Christianity], (Reviewed by GREGORY NICHOLS), 13-14
  Evangel'skii tekst v russkoi literature XVIII-XX vekov [Gospel Texts in Russian Literature of the 18th -20th Centuries] (Reviewed by OLEG P. TURLAC), 14-15
  
• Letters to the Editor
  JEFF THOMPSON, 15
  SCOTT CARTER, 15

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 13, no. 3 - Summer 2005

• SHARYL CORRADO, "Serving by Faith on Sakhalin Island," 1-2
• NATALIA POTAPOVA, "Contemporary Religious Life on Sakhalin Island," 3-4
• MARK R. ELLIOTT, "Christian Responses to Trafficking in Women from Eastern Europe," 5-6
• CHOON TAECK KONG, "Multicultural Theological Education in Kazakhstan," 7-8
• ANTA FILIPSONE, "Religious Education in Post-Soviet Latvia," 9-10
• DONY K. DONEV, "Church and State in Bulgaria Today," 11-12
• SCOTT KLINGSMITH, "Hungary, Poland, and Romania as Mission-Sending Nations," 13-14
• DARRELL JACKSON, "Experimentation in Worship: A Georgian Baptist Case Study," 15-16

• Book Reviews
  Henderson, Sarah L. Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia: Western Support for Grassroots Organizations (Reviewed by JOHN A. BERNBAUM), 14-15
  History of Euro-Asian Evangelical Movement 2.0 and 3.0 CD-ROMs (Reviewed by OLEG P. TURLAC) , 15
  

East-West Church & Ministry Report 
Vol. 13, No. 4 - Fall 2005

• MARK R. ELLIOTT, compiler, "Protestant Missions in Russia Today," 1-5
• ROMAN LUNKIN, "Russian Orthodox Social Ministry in Post-Soviet Society," 6-9
• LAWRENCE A. UZZELL, "Recommended Russian-Language Websites on Religion in Russia," 9
• ANTA FILIPSONE, "Religious Education in Post-Soviet Latvia," 10-11
• ALFRED GOLLOSHI, "Albanian Evangelical Leadership," 11-13
• DONALD FAIRBAIRN, "CoMission Shortcomings," 15
• JOHANNES REIMER, "Haste Makes Waste," 16

• Letter to the Editor
  PAUL MOJZES, 14
• Book Reviews
  Zhuk, Sergei I., Russia's Lost Reformation (Reviewed by ALBERT W. WARDIN), 14
  Johnson, Paul H., ed. The CoMission (Reviewed by SERGEI B. FILATOV), 14-15
  Johnson, Paul H., ed. The CoMission (Reviewed by STACY T. RINEHART), 16