How to Become A Mother of God

There’s more to motherhood than meets the eye.

Alexander Filonenko, a philosophy professor at Kharkiv University, once told a story about meeting a 16-year-old boy by the name of Sasha who had been dumped by his mother shortly after birth and found near a dumpster. He bore a lasting injury, a scar etched across his skull, as a poignant reminder of his mother's abandonment and neglect.

At the age of …