With God There Are No Dead Ends

Sergei Bulgakov on the meaning of Christ’s Nativity

On this day ninety-nine years ago, Dec 28, 1924, Sergei Bulgakov, then in his early 50s, fifteen years removed from the death of his son and return to Orthodoxy, wrote this Christmas reflection in his diary:

We bow down and worship Your Nativity, O Christ! How silent and sure, amidst the daily noise of life, does this sacred feast come down into the sou…