Starved Venezuela appoints 18 czars to handle food distribution By Franz von Bergen In an effort to contain the increasing scarcity of food and medicine, the government of Venezuela is moving forward with an initiative launched a couple of months ago that many at first took as a joke: the Great Mission of Sovereign Supply, […]
How to Guarantee You’ll Die Alone
Sologamy must be the meanest of modern marriage myths. Alas, Marrying Oneself is Now a Thing … Really by Carolyn Moynihan It sounds like a joke, but it is not entirely. Still recoiling from the insanity of marriage between two people of the same sex, we are told that people — women largely — are […]
Zika, Lies, and Abortion
Of 12,000 Women Infected With Zika, All Gave Birth to Healthy Baby. Women Don’t “Need” Abortion. Maybe it is time for verifiable research, and not just hearsay. by Bradley Mattes All along I’ve felt somewhat suspect that the Zika virus is linked to microcephaly. The US Centers for Disease Control and the New England Journal […]
September is here… Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse
Because if you are prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse, you’re prepared for anything! At least, that’s what the Center for Disease Control is saying in some of their ads. This month is National Preparedness Month, and as usual, I’m making a mention of it on my personal blog. It is this month which our federal […]
Mental Imagery in Eastern Orthodox Private Devotion
Is mental imagery good or bad in spiritual life? Fr. Sergei answers the question for Orthodox Christians, and anyone else who needs to know, once and for all. By Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov Just as there can be a properly trained voice, there can be a properly trained soul. —Fr. Alexander Elchaninov This presentation is based […]
Homofascists Not Welcome
More from one of our heroes, Fr. Josiah Trenham. Fr. Josiah Trenham, pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, Calif., delivered one of the more virulently anti-LGBT speeches at the World Congress of Families in Tblisi, Georgia, linking homosexuality to predatory and promiscuous behavior, saying that, “There’s a long and consistent history of unusual bathroom […]
We Have Been Warned
by Rod Dreher Nice Church – it would be a shame of something happened to it… Here in the flood zone of south Louisiana, you would be hard-pressed to find a single church or Christian organization (like the school community of which I’m a part) that isn’t in some way helping flood victims. I’m not […]
Gnosticism: The Perennial Enemy
by Valerie Schmalz “My friends, we’re in trouble. I won’t mince words with you,” said Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. “Culturally, politically, morally, civilizationally – we’re in bad shape.” The rapid transformation of society’s values, George argued, can be […]
Marxist Professor rejects Marxism after Traveling the Globe: ‘Socialism Doesn’t Work’
by Kate Hardiman In case you missed it – Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder encourages professors, and students, simply to be individuals. Seek the truth, and stand by it. At least one professor in America does not feel the Bern. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from socialism and Marxism […]
Germany Telling its People to Stockpile Food and Water in Case of Attacks
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday. Germany is currently on high alert after two Islamist attacks and a shooting rampage by a mentally […]