By Dr. John Devanny Fundamentalism is often viewed as the most Southern of religions. Yet this is not so. It was an alien seed planted in ground razed by war and harrowed by Reconstruction. The harrowing, or Reconstruction if one prefers, was not merely an updating of the constitutional and political order in the South, but […]

By Jeff Condra Thirty-five years ago, I served for a short spell on the vestry of the main Anglo-Catholic parish in a large Mid-South city. The local bishop was on the rightward end of the mainstream in the Episcopal Church (‘ECUSA’). However, he still would not make visitations to our parish, which he left up to its […]

By Olga Sibert The only way forward is small. Those words might seem an odd contradiction in a world that seems to be growing ever larger. The Internet sprawls across the globe connecting tiny villages in rural India to mighty skyscrapers in New York City and everywhere in between. Populations are bursting at the seams. […]

By Olga Sibert One of the many things that separates Orthodox Christians from other denominations and from the secular world is our burial and funeral services. Readers of this blog will not be surprised to learn that Appalachian customs for burial are incredibly similar to Orthodox ones and have maintained through the generations some of the practices […]

The 2nd edition of “The Protectress of the Southland” icon is now available, both mounted on wood and in laminate print. Buy one today from our friends at Uncut Mountain Supply! The new version includes the following sites: The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington; St. Symeon Orthodox Church (OCA) in Birmingham, […]