by Fr. Zechariah Lynch – The tribulations of our days will become more intense. The temptations to compromise will become more pronounced. “Be of good courage and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; for the Lord will do what is good in His sight” (2 Kingdom/Samuel 10:12). … Read more
by Fr. John Whiteford – You will not find a single Church Father or Saint of the Church that calls abortion anything less than murder. In recent years, there are lines of division that not only show the signs of an emerging schism in the Orthodox Church — it is becoming increasingly clear that we … Read more
by Rod Dreher – This stuff is absolutely intolerable. I remind you: they are talking about seizing children from families to put them through sex reassignment. Yeah, yeah, squall about it all you want, but that’s exactly what the Democratic Party is, if you take seriously the Biden Administration’s newly released guidelines on health care … Read more
by Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk) – Christians are coming to the conclusion that the times are not merely troubling, but apocalyptic. There is no question that we live in troubling times. The 20th century witnessed an unparalleled persecution of Christianity across the entire world – primarily through revolutionary violence in the East, but primarily through worldly … Read more
by Glenn Ellmers – The entire Woke agenda is an attack on civilization and a return to barbarism, violence, and anarchy. It’s the return of tyranny. Our political situation is so chaotic and strange right now that we can’t take anything for granted—including what is normal. So it’s often necessary to explain what may seem … Read more
by Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk) – The Catastrophe of Modern Education I have already written on multiple occasions of the urgent necessity of creating Orthodox parish schools in America. Our nation’s public schools have degenerated into prison-like institutions which have outlawed all mention of Truth (the Second Person of the Trinity), which forbid any public prayer to … Read more
by Richard L. Cravatts – Public schools continually introduce books to normalize extreme sexual behaviors to groom children into accepting homosexual perversions and deviant lifestyles and behaviors. … While parents and school boards have long questioned titles that some consider objectionable, inappropriate, indecent, or lewd, complaints from parents and school boards about offensive books currently … Read more
by Vladimir Basenkov – So that we finally believe in Him. The unit for measuring faith has not been invented yet, but its value determines the degree and the character of a person’s closeness to God. There are fewer convinced atheists than we think. When asked whether or not they recognize the existence of God, … Read more
by J.B. Shurk – Here’s what our COVID-1984 authoritarians want: they seek to use pandemics, wars, uncontrolled immigration, doomsday climate predictions, and “woke” cultural Marxism to keep people in a constant state of fear, divided among themselves, and willing to hand over their freedoms for evaporative promises of protection. “Protection” in this racket means survival but not life, equity but not fairness, financial handouts but not … Read more
by Fr. Octavian Moşin – Our main duty is to surround the children with care and prevent any harmful influence from entering their souls or stealing them from us. To create a family is about denouncing oneself for the sake of the love of your neighbor. On the whole, I think that family is akin … Read more