Buck Johnson, host of the Counterflow Podcast and an inquirer into Orthodoxy, recently interviewed Fr. Ignatius Lozano, archpriest of St. Andrew Orthodox Christian Church in Lockhart, Texas. Johnson’s podcast is typically a political show, but this episode is a riveting primer to the deep well of the ancient faith. We at the Fellowship are thrilled […]
The Curious Case for Cajun Orthodoxy
By Barry “Phil” Philliber Cajun people represent a curious culture nestled and nurtured within our broader Southern civilization. Most observers – when reflecting on Roman Catholicism in the United States at large – tend to focus on immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Poland, and Central and South America. The Cajun story is often overlooked in this […]
The Appalachian Tradition of “Old Christmas”
From our earliest of days, the people who settled the mountains of Appalachia have sought diligently to preserve their heritage, culture, and language. Our much derided accent, ancient customs and mountain knowledge is a source of pride to millions of Americans. Even today, there is a comfort and longing from folks all around to return […]
Stonewall Jackson
On December 4, 2021, one of the last true country music stars passed away. Stonewall Jackson was born in Tabor City, North Carolina, on November 6, 1932. Growing up with an abusive stepfather and little in the way of formal education, Jackson served as a submariner in the U.S. Navy before moving to Nashville to […]
LOF PODCAST: The Impetus for the Fellowship
Originally published at Dissident Mama on April 16, 2021, co-founders Dr. Clark Carlton and Rebecca “Iliana” Dillingham discuss the impetus for the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, its goals to both foster the Southland’s indigenous culture and facilitate evangelism among her people, Southerners’ classical and biblical self-consciousness, Ludwell’s bio, The Pledge, stealth Baptist churches, everyone from Tris […]
LOF PODCAST: Be Not Afraid
Our third podcast for the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship features a recent sermon by Fr. Alexander Fecanin, pastor of St. Symeon the New Theologian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fr. Alexander brings a timely message for our day: “Be not afraid.”
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: December
A Selection of Saints of the British Isles and Western Europe and Africa Clockwise from top left: Saints Birinus, Ambrose, Finnian, Lucy, and Flannan. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Birinus, Apostle of Wessex, 3/16 December Birinus, a native of Lombardy, consecrated Bishop by Asterius Bishop of Genoa, and then sent by Pope Honorius to convert […]
VIDEO: Reconstruction of Southern Religion, 1865-1930
John Devanny holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of South Carolina. He resides in Front Royal, Virginia, where he teaches at Christendom College, writes, tends garden, and occasionally escapes to bird hunt or fly fish. This lecture is from the Abbeville Institute’s 2019 Summer School: The New South.
Orthodox Granny Women
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
By Rebecca Dillingham 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 […]
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