The Romanian who left computers to find salvation. Now he's a monk on Mount Athos

Monk Theologos is a former IT guy who found God on Mount Athos. He's now "working out his own salvation," as he likes to say, and even has a podcast where he tries to raise the "spiritual level" of his followers.

The Monk Who Spoke in Kurdish – Ksirov H Kushan

The Monk Who Spoke in Kurdish for Hieromonk Madai He walked out of shadows not to escape, but to carry them. His name, once written in Yazidi dust, now echoed in incense smoke on the walls of Orthodoxy. They said a Kurd could not hold a cross. He lifted it anyway— not as conquest, but as memory. In Moscow, he kneeled. In Greece, he chanted. And in Georgia, he found a silence ready to become song. He did not burn his roots. He translated them. He…