“The Truth: What Every Roman Catholic Should Know about the Orthodox Church” is back in print. “The Truth,” written by Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship co-founder and editorial director Dr. Clark Carlton, is an indispensable guide for Roman Catholics who want to know more about the Orthodox Church, her faith, and her practice. “The Truth” will also […]

By Walt Garlington The South came into being during the age in Western history when the idea of man’s ability to participate directly in the life of the Holy Trinity, to know God through an actual union with His divine energies, had been rejected (see Fr. John Strickland’s very helpful book The Age of Division […]

By Walt Garlington My father is fond of telling the story of his great-grandfather’s War sword. As a boy, he was in his grandfather John Riley Boyd’s house in Rogers, Arkansas. Resting above the hearth in a place of honor was the sword his grandfather’s father, a soldier in Tennessee, had carried with him in […]

By: Walt Garlington Monasticism tends to have a bad reputation here in the South.  Marriage of man and woman, children, and ancestors have always been the focus and ideal of the Southern people.  A peek into the literature of Dixie confirms this.  In her novel The Great Meadow, Elizabeth Madox Roberts has the youthful brothers […]

  THE PHILIP LUDWELL III ORTHODOX FELLOWSHIP “Nurturing the roots of Orthodoxy in Dixie’s Land” Holy Week 2024         Beloved Brothers and Sisters: Greetings in the Lord! On behalf of everyone involved with the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, I want to extend our warmest regards and prayers as we continue our struggle toward […]

By Walt Garlington The first Sunday of Lent in the Orthodox Church celebrates the restoration of the icons – specially stylized paintings of Christ, the Mother of God and other saints, and the angels – after more than one hundred years of imperial persecution of those who venerated them.  Though the official theology of much […]