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 […]
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Orthodoxy in Bayou Land
“Orthodoxy in Bayou Land: The Ancient Faith in Northeast Louisiana”By Walt Garlington It is not unusual to run across ancient things in Northeast Louisiana – Native American arrowheads and burial mounds, old French and Spanish names and settlements, and petrified wood here and there. But, strange as it will sound, the most ancient of them […]
Moldova Pilgrimage
Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship co-founder Fr. John Whiteford and his matushka visited Moldova in the summer of 2022. We’re highlighting his travel series at our Southern Orthodox site because Moldova is a highly agricultural and intensely hospitable society – two cultural norms Dixie knows a thing or two about … or at least used to. As […]
The Shrine of St. Cuthbert
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tradition Is How We Contend
Trad ForumBy Rebecca DillinghamSeptember 17, 2022Romney, West Virginia Tradition is the opposite of permanent revolution. But in modern times, it’s the most revolutionary act we can do. G.K. Chesteron said that tradition means: “giving a vote to that most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead … [because it] […]
Lenten Appeal
The Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship“Nurturing the roots of Orthodoxy in Dixie’s Land” P.O. Box 174Brown Summit, NC 27214 Great Lent 2022 Beloved Brothers and Sisters: Greetings in the Lord! On behalf of everyone involved with the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, we want to extend our warmest regards and prayers as we continue our struggle through […]
Yellow Pages
Welcome to the Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship classified page, which features Orthodox Christian-owned businesses and services throughout the Southland. If you are an Orthodox small-business owner in Dixie (or nearby) and would like to list your business on this page, send an email to YellowPages@SouthernOrthodox.org. Please include your name, the name of your business, […]
