As a followup to part I, Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship co-founder and editorial director Dr. Clark Carlton continues with the “Christ-haunted” theme. In this podcast, Clark discusses Southern musical traditions and their relationship to Orthodoxy and in evangelizing to Dixie.
LOF PODCAST: Christ-haunted South, Part I
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship Podcast hosted by LOF co-founder and editorial director, Dr. Clark Carlton. He discusses just exactly what makes the South “Christ-haunted” and what this has to do with Orthodoxy. Click here for part II.
Ortho Dixie: Orthodox Christianity and Southern Identity
By Stephen Borthwick Anyone who has grown up in the melting pot of immigrant religiosity of the industrial northeast has a very specific vision of Southern religiosity – evangelical, provincial, low-church, and rabidly anti-Catholic, among other things. Even growing up in a household sympathetic to the South, I had plenty of condescending ignorance about the […]
Through the Mud
By Theodore Phillips Most modern Christian churches are stuck in the mud. Rain, old ruts, sinkholes and dead end paths lead many astray, bog down a few more and cause even more to abandon the path and surrender the struggle. There is a way to clean this mud road up and lay the foundations of a […]
VIDEO: St. Symeon Church 40th Anniversary, Birmingham, AL
St. Symeon the New Theologian Orthodox Church in Birmingham, Alabama, celebrated its 40th anniversary in October 2017. This video was created by Laura Fecanin and Andrew Ritchey as an introduction to their parish. Voiceover done by St. Symeon parishioner Burt Spence. Videos of recent St. Symeon services and of their choir can be found here. […]
The Real Old Time Religion
By A.J. Conyers People in the South who are intuitively attuned to its culture and history suspect that what passes for popular, evangelical religion in the region is not precisely what it has been in the past. Besides the fact that the South, like other parts of the country, is slowly giving in to the […]
Metropolitan Jonah Serves at Ludwell-linked Chapel
First Orthodox Liturgy Celebrated at Historic William & Mary Wren Chapel On Sunday, March 16, 2014, at the request of the College of William & Mary’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen; former Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America & Canada of the Orthodox Church in America) celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the […]
VIDEO: “God is with Us” in Traditional American Hymnody
The Facebook community Orthodox Christian Chants shared this video in November 2017: “Here’s something a little bit different, a rendition of the Orthodox hymn ‘God is With Us’ chanted in an Appalachian Bluegrass (Traditional American Hymnody) style.” Sung by Erik Potter and Evan Michael.
PODCAST: That’s Not Very Texan
Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship co-founder Fr. John Whiteford talks about Orthodoxy and culture through the history of Saints Constantine & Helen Serbian Orthodox Church, which was established in Galveston, Texas, in 1895, and is still a thriving parish today. Sermon originally published in June 2017 at St. Jonah Orthodox Church.
PODCAST: The Older Religiousness of the South
Samuel C. Smith holds a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina. He is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Graduate Program at Liberty University. This lecture is from the Abbeville Institute’s 2013 Summer School: Understanding the South and the Southern Tradition.
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