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 […]
GreatMartyr Euphemia the All-Praised: Protector and Defender of Orthodox Christianity
A great and miraculous event is commemorated today (July 11) in the history of the Church. It took place during the Council of Chalcedon before a multitude of witnesses. The Miracle of Saint Euphemia the All-Praised The holy Great Martyr Euphemia (September 16) suffered martyrdom in the city of Chalcedon in the year 304, during […]
Remembering the 75th Anniversary of the Internment of the Aleut Natives of the Aleutian Islands
In 1942, as the Japanese were expanding their attacks on the United States, they sent two carrier groups to the Aleutian Islands in the Alaska Territory. The purpose was to force the Americans to divide their forces and leave the true objective, Midway, with fewer defenses. The ruse didn’t work, but the Alaskan defense forces […]
Connecting Website Visitors with Your… ?
You’ve probably read a great deal on the importance of having a website, having a good website, having a pretty website, having a fast website, etc., but the most important part of having a website is often completely overlooked by clergy and business owners alike. Do you know what it is? If not, then this […]
Murder by Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century
by Brad Birzer “Arrest! Need it be said that it is a breaking point in your life, a bolt of lightning which has scored a direct hit on you? That is it an inassimilable spiritual earthquake not every person can cope with, as a result of which people often slip into insanity?,” Solzhenitsyn asks in […]
Chesterton: “The Christian Martyr is the Opposite of Muslim Suicide Terrorist”
by G.K. Chesterton A Christian martyr is the opposite of a Muslim suicide terrorist. They are at the opposite ends of heaven and hell. One man flung away his life; he was so good that his dry bones could heal cities in pestilence. Another man flung away life; he was so bad that his bones […]
Want Aid in Syria? Convert to Evangelicalism
This is shameful. Isn’t this how the Roman Catholic Church gained a foothold with the Unia in the Middle East? Evangelical Christians from the United States and other areas of the world are helping “destroy” the historic Antioch Church in Syria by offering poor, vulnerable orthodox Christians aid and assistance if they “convert” and start […]