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 […]
Southern Comfort with a Shot of Vodka
By Arlyn Kantz The historians of Russia and Dixie do write How their soldiers believed in the glorious fight Now Bubba and Joe Bob, Boris and Gleb Are stacked in amongst the magnificent dead The breath-taking battle they did not survive But all four fought well with God on their side I read biographies of […]
On Being a Good Neighbor: St. Brigid of Kildare
By Walt Garlington “Hospitality is one of the best known Southern virtues, part of the inheritance that has come down to us from our English and Celtic forebears. Our Holy Mother Brigid is one of those largely forgotten figures who helped enrich our patrimony with this virtue, who helped to cultivate it in the souls […]
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