By St. Nikolai Velimirovich You would like for God to pardon all sinners of His Terrible Judgement. Are you again tempting Christ just like that enemy of God tempted Him on the mountain? “If you are the all-merciful Son of God, have mercy on Judas and Cain and all serious sinners, and I will worship […]
The Reason Obama Is President… from Pravda!
By Xavier Lerma What do you think it means when Pravda publishes a piece like this?! The reason America has the trillion dollar war monger Obama as president today is because of immorality and materialism in America. President John Adams once said,
Timely Advice from the Goldenmouth
St John Chrysostom on the Difference between Charity and Government Welfare. Please give generously to those in need today. Click here for a worthy charity. Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person’s gold and distribute […]
Physician Assisted Suicide And The Orthodox Church
Below is a letter from Metropolitan Methodios of Boston concerning physician assisted suicide and the upcoming ballot question no. 2 in Massachusetts. We thank his Eminence for his leadership on this issue! I’m guessing that he will not receive the same kind of vitriol about economic issues as anti-abortion proponents have in giving guidance in […]
Hastings, History and A Return to the Faith of English Kings
From Orthodox Christianity & the English Tradition: Hastings – 1066-1993 ‘King Harold was slain, and Leofwine and Gyrth, his brothers, and many good men. This battle took place on the feast of St. Callistus.’ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Accompanied by Malcolm Dunstall, I made a private visit to the site of the Battle of Hastings on […]
C.S. Lewis & Materialism
by John G. West “You say the materialist universe is ‘ugly,’” wrote C. S. Lewis to a young skeptic in 1950. “…If you are really a product of the materialistic universe, how is it you don’t feel at home there?” Nearly half-a-century later, Lewis’s question still resonates. Modern society continues to operate largely on the […]
Because Black is Beautiful: Pulpit Freedom Sunday
See the picture above? These are American clergy gathered to confirm their commitment as a new “Black Robe Regiment.” I see what I hope is an Orthodox clergyman in front. I’d love to know who it is and give them credit! Please read the following article on the importance of this event for Churches and […]
Orthodox Christian Responsibility in the Public Arena
by Fr. John A. Peck This coming Sunday is Pulpit Freedom Sunday. I think it is a sad state of affairs that we should even need such a Sunday, but we do, primarily because Christians in America have avoided or ignored their responsibility to participate in the political arena as Christians supporting Christian moral teaching. […]
Freedom & Liberty
And now a word from Col. Jeff Cooper It is an uphill struggle, but I wish that we could distinguish more carefully between freedom and liberty. These conditions are not the same, though they are certainly related.
Free Press & Free Pulpit
By Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Senior Editor of Touchstone Magazine, Fr. Patrick is also pastor of All Saints Church in Chicago, IL. This article, posted on OrthodoxyToday.org in June of 2005 is a short, but powerful statement of why Christians, particularly Orthodox Christians, must not weasel out of their obligations to the country, society and […]