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Podcast: Soul Anchor Podcast
Episode: 170 Special Edition Did all those people really convert?
Description: With the Russian Ukraine War raging, I became curious to understand the religious relationship between these two countries. I dug up issue 18 of Christian History Magazine which was dedicated to the Russian Orthodox Church. In it I found several articles that shed light on the history of these two countries and the religion that they share. So, in 988 Prince Vladimir ordered the entire city of Kiev to go to the river and be baptized. Did they really convert to Christianity? We Westerners find this incredulous. The author of this article says yes they did and helps us understand how the...