by Fr. Hans JacobseThe SCOTUS decision to legalize gay marriage reveals that the corruption of American cultural gatekeepers and institutions is nearly complete. This ruling legitimates the homosexual agenda which at bottom is not about civil rights … [Continue reading]
Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country
Rod Dreher is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative.Voting Republican and other failed culture war strategies are not going to save us now No, the sky is not falling — not yet, anyway — but with the Supreme Court ruling … [Continue reading]
A New Gospel
by John FundEnvironmentalist and scientist James Lovelock has some cautionary words about the dire predictions in the new United Nations report on climate change. He tells Britain’s leftist newspaper the Guardian that environmentalism has“become a … [Continue reading]
EU: “(Christian) Orthodoxy is the Enemy”
by George MichaelopoulosLest anyone think that the New World Order (NWO) crusade against Russia is based Vladimir Putin being nasty to gays or on differences between political ideologies, please take the time to read these alarming words by Carl … [Continue reading]
Divine Liturgy
There is commentary in Russian by Protodeacaon Andrei Kuraev. I don't know what he was saying, but I'd love to see subtitles to this magnificent liturgy. Enjoy. … [Continue reading]
Why Bonhoeffer Made The Sign Of The Cross
Reading Letters and Papers from Prison, I was surprised to discover Dietrich Bonhoeffer used the sign of the cross in his daily prayers.“I’ve found that following Luther’s instruction to ‘make the sign of the cross’ at our morning and evening prayers … [Continue reading]
America Embraces Era of Religous Persecution
by Russell ShawThe persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States. As predicted, it isn’t—thank God—bloody persecution like the persecution of Christians in many countries. But it’s … [Continue reading]
Why We Stopped Doing Sex Change Operations
by Paul R. McHughWhen the practice of sex-change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer,“God, give me … [Continue reading]
Gay Marriage and the Houston Gay Rights Ordinance
Source: Orthodox Clergy Association of Houston and Southeast TexasWe, the Orthodox clergy of Houston and Southeast Texas, are compelled by our responsibilities before God to speak out plainly against the rebellion against God’s created order that we … [Continue reading]
Russian Orthodox Church Will Never Recognize Same-Sex Marriages
The Russian Orthodox Church will never recognize same-sex marriages, even though it acknowledges freedom of choice in pursuing a certain way of life, even if a sinful one.A statement to this effect was made by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All … [Continue reading]