by Benjy Sarlin Just remember this when you hear yet again someone condescendingly say “Nobody is trying to take your guns.” A Democratic congressman has proposed outlawing “military-style semiautomatic assault weapons” and forcing existing owners to sell their weapons or face prosecution, a major departure from prior gun control proposals that typically exempt existing firearms. […]
Stanford Study: Religious Teens Are Smarter (and More Conscientious and Cooperative) than Non-Observant Teens
by Michael Cook If Stanford gets it, you know it must be true! No one is surprised when teenagers withdraw from their parents’ religious practice. It’s often looked upon as a rite of passage. But, according to a study from Stanford Graduate School of Education no one should be surprised either if their grades suffer. […]
Harvard Declares War on Orthodox Christianity
by Sohrab Ahmari The culture wars heat up, and are not likely to die down. Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out Orthodox Christianity. That’s okay, Christianity has faced oppression and persecution before. We always win. Drive down Massachusetts Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in the tony, hyper-educated city of […]
How the Nazis Used Gun Control
by Stephen Halbrook The perennial gun-control debate in America did not begin here. The same arguments for and against were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In […]
‘End of History’ Near, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Says Again
The “end of history” is near and is “already visible to the naked eye,” the head of the Russian Orthodox church said on Monday in comments at the end of a service in Moscow. He said much the same thing in 2013. Patriarch Kirill told the congregation at the Christ The Savior Cathedral in central […]
Orthodox Religion, Unorthodox Medicine: The Rise of Romania’s Christian Doctors
by Sorana Stanescu A new breed of Romanian doctors wants to place faith at the heart of their practice, alarming those who believe religion and medicine do not mix. Cardiologist Ciprian Fisca barely got any sleep on last night’s shift, and his next one starts early tomorrow morning. But right now, eight hours before he returns […]
“It Will Not Always Be This Way”
A businessman went to a priest and said: “Batushka, what’s going on…? I believe in God, I don’t deceive anyone, I don’t steal, I don’t cheat on my wife… I work honestly… My wife has left me for another man, my business is failing, my car broke down, my daughter has problems in college, my […]
Studies Show Lesbians Much More Likely to Beat, Sexually Abuse Their ‘Wives’ Than Heterosexual Men
A 2010 study by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control found that the rate of intimate partner violence (IPV) among lesbians is a stunning 40.4%. Another study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology found that the rate of lesbian IPV is 47.5%. This means that nearly half of all women in lesbian domestic lifestyles have been […]
Taking Over: How To Do It
by Fr. John A. Peck Among the Orthodox, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn holds a special place of honor. He was an eyewitness and victim of the Soviet machine. A man who loved Russia, and was not afraid to speak and write Truth, at a time when such action was outright sedition. He also offers us a telltale […]
Holy Synod of Bishops issues statement on recent tragic events in Charlottesville, VA
On 10 August 1872 the Synod of Constantinople issued an official condemnation of ecclesiastical racism, or “ethno-phyletism”, as well as its theological argumentation: We renounce, censure and condemn phyletism, that is racial discrimination, ethnic feuds, hatreds and dissensions within the Church of Christ, as contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons […]