By Olga Sibert For 95 years, the Grand Ole Opry has showcased the best in country music talent, both rising stars and old favorites. Playing at The Grand Ole Opry House is typically the height of any country or bluegrass singer’s career. Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, Reba McIntyre, Vince Gill, and June Carter Cash are just […]
“Ludwell Review” First Article
The Ludwell Review is finally available … sort of. Because of cat-herding issues, there has been a delay in getting articles for this journal of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship. So, rather than put things off any longer, we have decided to publish essays as they become available. The first, Clark Carlton’s “A Feudal Society without […]
The Shrine of St. Cuthbert
Today, we commemorate St. Bede the Venerable (25 May/7 June). Known as the “Father of English History” and the “Church Historian,” he was a prolific writer, penning the life stories of many Saints, including St. Cuthbert. A “wonderworker of the English land,” St. Cuthbert was commemorated earlier this spring (20 March/2 April) but was also […]
Bless Your Heart — Smallah, Smallah, Smallah!
By Fr. Joseph Huneycutt For the audio version, click here. The question is often asked: “How do we bring Americans to Orthodoxy?” America is a big and complex country made up mostly of people who came from somewhere else. And this query is compounded if you mix in the cultural peculiarities of The South. Now, when […]
Leaving Berea
By Arlyn Kantz At least seven municipalities in the South bear the name Berea: Berea, Texas; Berea, Tennessee; Berea, South Carolina; Berea, North Carolina; Berea, Kentucky; Berea, Virginia; and Berea, West Virginia. Alongside these, at least one college and two denominations have adopted the name, and dozens of churches. Google “Berea Baptist Church” for a […]
A Wild Christianity
By Paul Kingsnorth Through the mouth of the cave I watched the storm front move in from the east. I could already hear the approaching thunder; the low bank of cloud was gray with it. I was perched on a low ledge inside the cave, which was just long enough to accommodate a human body […]
Invisible Womanhood
By Arlyn Kantz In my military upbringing in the seventies, it was not a question of if we were attending church, but where. Due to multiple moves across a landscape of splintering creeds, our family formed no deep denominational loyalties. Active participation in a local congregation remained high priority, and every time we moved, house […]
A Prayer for “The Freaks”
By Rebecca Dillingham “What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a […]
Why There Are No Beggars in Moldova
Originally published September 18, 2022, at St. Jonah Orthodox Church.
Reflections on Asbury & Other Southern Revivals
By Walt Garlington It is common knowledge that Christian revival meetings have long been part of Dixie’s heritage. They’ve been with us since the Great Awakening in the middle of the 18th century, but the Great Revival of Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801 [feature image above] was the real beginning of this spiritual phenomenon as […]
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