By A.J. Conyers People in the South who are intuitively attuned to its culture and history suspect that what passes for popular, evangelical religion in the region is not precisely what it has been in the past. Besides the fact that the South, like other parts of the country, is slowly giving in to the […]
Metropolitan Jonah Serves at Ludwell-linked Chapel
First Orthodox Liturgy Celebrated at Historic William & Mary Wren Chapel On Sunday, March 16, 2014, at the request of the College of William & Mary’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship, Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen; former Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America & Canada of the Orthodox Church in America) celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the […]
What Makes Southern Manners Peculiar?
By Ward S. Allen Southerners live in the 18th century. This common charge is not altogether false, since the peculiar habits, customs, and meanings of words found often in the American South are found also in 18th century English authors. Such a word is manners. Most English-speaking people and some Southerners use the word now […]
The Return of the King? Jacobitism vs. Jacobinism in Appalachia and Russia
By Fr. Dcn. Paul Siewers Recently I was blessed to talk with a group of seminarians at Jordanville (via Zoom) in Professor Deacon Andrei Psarev’s history seminar at Holy Trinity Seminary. In that conversation (linked elsewhere here) I mentioned what I called “overlaps” between aspects of American and Russian cultural paradigms, along with obvious differences. I […]
Appalachian Orthodox Paschal Hymn
By Fr. Ernesto M. Obregón Father Justin Patterson of the OCA uploaded [this video] to Facebook. It is the Paschal troparion sung to Appalachian harmonies, but conforming to tonal rules of the Slavic Orthodox. It was sung at a music workshop at the All American Council of the Orthodox Church in America, meeting in Atlanta […]
Panikhida Served for Colonel Philip Ludwell III
Tuesday, March 14/27, 2012, marked the two hundred and forty fifth anniversary of the repose of Colonel Philip Ludwell III, a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, and the first known convert to Orthodoxy in the Americas. With the blessing of Archimandrite Luke, Abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York, a memorial (panikhida) was […]
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