by Thomas Sowell Some have said that we are living in a post-industrial era, while others have said that we are living in a post-racial era. But growing evidence suggests that we are living in a post-thinking era. Many people in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are staging angry protests against Israel’s military action in Gaza. […]
Remember
Remember God. Correct the course of your nation. Save the world. Blessed is the nations whose God is THE LORD. – Psalm 33:12
EP: Cohabitation of Same-Sex Couples Contrary to Gospel
The following is an excerpt from the Message of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the 42nd Clergy-Laity Congress in Philadelphia, delivered July 7, 2014. Our Lord, through His first miracle in Canaan, Galilee, blessed the holy sacrament of marriage, in which two persons of different sexes come together to unite into one body: […]
A Cold Age
by Fr. Lawrence Farley One of the benefits of reading history is that it enables one to compare one’s own era with other eras, and so identify the blind spots of former times and as well as the blind spots of one’s own time. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out (in his essay On the Reading […]
Why Church?
by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) Many people who rarely attend church have a kind of consumer’s attitude towards church. They come to church, for instance, before a long trip – to light a candle just for the sake of it, so that nothing would happen on the road. They come for two or three minutes, hurriedly […]
Orthodox Truth in an Age of Relativism
by Gabe Martini It is not loving to affirm a person in their sin. It is not loving to affirm a person in their rebellion against both God and his created, natural order—not “supernatural,” or “unnatural,” but the way nature was always intended to be, revealed most perfectly in Jesus Christ and the Mother of […]
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 […]
Another Orthodox Priest Murdered
On the night of May 9th, close to Sloviansk, Archpriest Pavel Zhuchenko of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) was shot and killed. He served at the St. Dmitry Donskoy church in the city of Druzhkovka (Donetsk region). The circumstances of the priest’s death are unknown.
Iraq Legalizes Rape of Girls Starting at Age 9
Just in case you wondered, Islam is no legitimate religion – it is a politico-fascist cult, bent on cruelty, domination, damnation and death – and that’s putting it mildly if you look at history and fact. Why would any reasonable (that is, civilized) person think otherwise? Do we need more ‘laws’ like this – we […]
Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally
by Dennis Prager Remember, this is about the same generation that brought you ‘Spiritual, but not Religious’ and the mental health disaster that follows it. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. – Judges 17:6; 21:25 Last week, David Brooks of The New York […]