“You look out in the crowd and you see so many young people,” remarked Orthodox Bishop Michael of New York and New Jersey. He said it gave him great hope for the future of the pro-life movement. The primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Metropolitan Tikhon, shared that hope. “I do feel like in […]
We Will Need Writers Who Can Remember Freedom
from ParkerHiggins.net Ursula K. Le Guin was honored at the National Book Awards last night and gave a fantastic speech about the dangers to literature and how they can be stopped. As far as I know it’s not available online yet (update: the video is now online), so it has been transcribed from the livestream below. The […]
Elder Paisios: Defend the Christian Faith, the Family, the Church
The state is waging war against divine law. It’s laws are directed against the Law of God… There’s a war on today, a holy war. I must be on the front lines.
U.S. Government Says They Have Power To Force You To Violate Your Faith
Republished from 3 years ago. Obama Administration Justice Department argues in Federal Court that they have the power to force anyone to violate their faith to comply with their laws. Even Judges’ wives. There were many Conservatives who warned that ObamaCare had little to do with actual provision of health care and insurance, and more […]
What Ended The Great Depression?
by Stephen Moore “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” as Napoleon once put it, and never has that been more true than the story of the Great Depression and its aftermath. With liberals again pitching more government spending “stimulus” in Washington, it’s critical we get this history right. In a previous column I […]
Pastors to Defy IRS Snoops by Daring Them to Place Them Under Arrest
by Anthony Martin As The Examiner reported Monday, the IRS entered into an agreement with an atheist group to monitor pastors and churches in order to “catch” suspected offenders of engaging in “unacceptable” speech from the pulpits across America. The agency threatens to revoke the tax exempt status of churches that point out government infractions […]
The Best Church For American Christianity In Exile
By Rod Dreher Carl Trueman states plainly what many of us American Christians see: that we are living through the sending of the Church into internal exile. Excerpt: We live in a time of exile. At least those of us do who hold to traditional Christian beliefs. The strident rhetoric of scientism has made belief in the […]
IRS Strikes Deal With Atheist Group to Monitor Content of Sermons
We could just support the church with virtuous industry, rather than languish as non-profits under totalitarian scrutiny. The next time your pastor delivers a pro-life sermon or urges the congregation to stand up for pro-life values in the political or public arena, he could be taken to task by the IRS. Alliance Defending Freedom asked the […]
The Forgotten Good of American Individualism
By Fr. Gregory Jensen Recently, two Christian social critics—one Roman Catholic, the other Eastern Orthodox—tackled some of the problems that emerge from individualism in American culture. Thomas Storck (“The Catholic Failure to Change America”) does so in light of the tradition of Catholic Church; his Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah (“Secularism and Depersonalization”) looks at the same intellectual […]
The Former Slaves Who Started Memorial Day
by Alfonso Rachel Saw this on Alfonso Rachel’s Facebook page, and thought it was worthy of passing along. Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the […]