Posts tagged Mikhail Gorbachev
The Faith Questions That Haunted The Life Of Gorbachev
The Faith Questions That Haunted The Life Of Gorbachev

(OPINION) It isn’t every day that one of the creators of a political thriller gets to ask its real-life protagonist to evaluate the novel’s plot. But that happened when the late Billy Wireman, president of Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, handed the last Soviet Union leader a copy of “The Secret Diary of Mikhail Gorbachev.”

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OpinionTerry MattinglyTerry Mattingly, Tmatt, On Religion, Soviet Union, Communism, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia, Billy Wireman, Literature, Christianity, Orthodox ChristianityComment
Ties that bind: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Russia and Fatima
Ties that bind: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Russia and Fatima

(COMMENTARY) Pope John Paul II believed his and former US President Reagan’s survivals of shootings were part of a divine plan countering evil in Russia.

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Politics, Religion, North America, Europe, OpinionTerry MattinglyReagan, Pope John Paul II, Fatima, Berlin, Cold War, Paul Kengor, Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev, Terry Mattingly, Primary Feature, Catholicism, Christianity, Soviets, Ronald reagan, Ronald Reagan