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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Saint Michael & the South
By Walt Garlington … according to God’s revelation in the Bible, not only do human beings have their own guardian angel but nations have them, too. … Not only does every nation have them, but also every city, every town, every locale, and particularly every temple devoted to the worship of God. — Father Maximos […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: November
Clockwise from top left: St. Cecilia; St. John the Dwarf; St. Edmund, King of East Anglia, England’s Original Patron Saint; St. Andrew the Holy Apostle, Patron Saint of Scotland; Great-Martyr Katherine the All-Wise of Alexandria; and St. Willibrord (Clement), Apostle of the Frisians. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Gwyddfarch, Hermit of Moel yr Ancr (+6th century), […]
The Kinsman-Redeemer of the South
By Walt Garlington “And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family: After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: October
Clockwise from top left: St. Alfred the Great, Eternal King of England & Chief Patron Saint of the South; St. Ammon of Egypt; St. Kenneth of Aghaboe; Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, & Celsus of Milan; and St. Frideswide of Oxford. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Remigius of Rheims, the Apostle of the Franks, 1/14 October […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: September
Clockwise from top left: St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury; St. Lioba, Beloved Abbess and Enlightener of Germany; St. Deiniol of Bangor; Martyrs Sophia and her three daughters Faith, Hope, and Love, at Rome; and Great Martyr Eustathios Placidas and His Wife Theopiste and Children Agapios and Theopistos, also Martyred with Him. By Walt Garlington […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: August
Clockwise from top left: Saints Moses the Black; Ninian, Apostle of the Southern Picts of Scotland; Eulalia of Barcelona; Oswald, King of Northumbria and Martyr; and Aidan of Lindisfarne. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Ethelwold of Winchester, 1/14 August Born in Winchester in England and already a monk and priest, in 955 he became Abbot […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: July
Clockwise from top left: Saints Samson of Dol; Julian, First Bishop of Le Mans; Germanus of Auxerre; Swithin of Winchester; Sisoes the Great; and Mildred of Thanet. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Swithin of Winchester (+862), 2/15 July St. Swithin (the original form: Swithun, meaning a strong bear-cup) is one of the greatest wonderworkers of England […]
