By Benjamin Dixon Understanding the ways and means by which the Orthodox and Southern traditions harmonize is crucial to the evangelization of the South. For myself, and many Southerners, the journey to Holy Orthodoxy feels less a conversion than the recovery of a lost inheritance. This goes well beyond the connections made to Southern agrarianism, […]

By Walt Garlington Two important strands in the tapestry of Southern culture are the Greek and the Irish.  Most of what Dixie took from each, unfortunately, was of a non-Christian nature.  Her Greek teachers were mostly of the ancient, pre-Christian era – Homer, Aristotle, and so forth.  From the Irish she has taken a certain […]

“The Life: The Orthodox Doctrine of Salvation” is back in print! Volume Four of “The Faith” series, which was was written by Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship co-founder Dr. Clark Carlton, presents the Orthodox Christian teaching on the most important question that anyone will ever face: What must one do to be saved? Volume One, “The Faith: An […]

By Walt Garlington The journey of the African diaspora in the United States to find a religious home has been a winding and circuitous one, from tribal practices to Western Christian denominations to Islamic ethno-nationalism. With essay appearing at the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, my recommendation that they consider the Orthodox Church as their home will […]

By Rebecca Dillingham Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must be Eastern. The West was fully Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies. — St. John Maximovitch There’s a contingent of haters – dare I say, a […]

By Walt Garlington While there remain some flinty, hardened Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, and others here in Dixie, the general religious tendency among Southerners – owing to their innate hospitality and graciousness – is towards a form of Christian ecumenism, in which the Christian believer stands above all the various Christian traditions and partakes of what […]

By Elizabeth Condra It was the summer of 2015, if memory serves, when my mother posed me and my sister in front of the monument of the fallen Confederate soldier on the town square. The monument towered above the oak trees and dour Spanish moss, and despite the oppressively humid environs, my smile was bright. […]