By Olga Sibert Come on in. Sit down. Rest yourself. Settin’s cheaper’n standin’. Here in the Appalachians we have a person known as a Granny Woman. I was privileged to grow up with one and I pray, God willing, I will be one myself someday. On this past May 6th, as I was researching and reading […]
Come Home, Y’all
Each of us has ancestors, both physical and spiritual, who gave us [our] language, culture and, most importantly, [our] faith … To lose touch with that past, with those ancestors, means to become spiritually dry. — His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia Some say that Orthodoxy suffers from a lack of converts here […]
Hillbilly Thomists or Hillbilly Hesychasts for the South?
By Walt Garlington “Through this (theoria) a man is deified, not through reflecting on words or visible things, but taught by silence.” — St. Gregory Palamas Mr. Joseph Pearce gives a very good illustration of how the West has gone astray after leaving its first love, the Orthodox Church, for Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. At […]
Some Saints Representing the Southland
“The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies.” — St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco For more information, check out Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome and Pre-Schism Orthodox Saints Who Evangelized Western Europe and the Scandinavian Lands.
Pascha 2021 at St. Jonah Orthodox Church – Spring, Texas
Orthodox Christians from around the Houston area were blessed with a gridlocked Paschal Procession. Archpriest Fr. John Whiteford says that folks had to stop repeatedly because so many faithful continued to stream out of the parish as the procession wrapped back around to the (eventually) closed front door of the parish. After Christ’s Resurrection is […]
LOF PODCAST: Christ-haunted South, Part II
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. […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- Next Page »
Follow Us