Nearly four years ago, I got doxed. Back then, I penned this essay about the turbulent event but never published it since at the time I thought it gave the evil-doers undue power. However, because my dox is frequently weaponized against me by regime journos who think that by merely mentioning the despicable act carried …
The Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) defines reconciliation as “Making peace between enemies, especially the removal of hostility and barriers between humans and God, and between individuals, accomplished by Christ.” This takes work. A lot of work, particularly because it can’t be a one-sided endeavor. In the case of individuals making peace with God and removing …
I began this series chronicling my experience planning the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship’s inaugural conference with “Armed & ready at the gate,” explaining the impetus for the event and some of the hurdles of the early stages. I then followed up with “A dark horse in these dark times,” taking a look at the spiritual warfare …
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”— Ephesians 6:12 I concluded my previous essay “Armed & ready at the gate” about the planning of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship inaugural conference by eluding to …
“Don’t be deceived regarding the knowledge of what will be after your death: what you sow here, you will reap there. After leaving here, no one can make progress. Here is the work, there the reward; here the struggle, there the crowns.”— St. Barsanuphius the Great That truism of the Orthodox way is one of …
Conservative writer Matt Walsh and his wife recently had identical twin girls, and he tweeted this: I remember soon after bringing my preemie identical twins home from their scary two-week stint in the NICU and crying in my exhausted state when I couldn’t tell them apart for breastfeeding. It was double trouble for real. My …
In mid-September more than 100 people gathered in a beautiful small town in northeastern West Virginia for the 2nd Annual Trad Forum. Hosted by my pal and compatriot Michael Sisco, it was a “safe space” of like-minded folks from around the region and a few beyond that gathered to discuss “traditional wisdom for modern trials.” Above (clockwise …
On New Year’s Eve 23 years ago my husband and I fell in love in New York City. We had just met the previous day through mutual friends but we consider the Phish concert we attended at Madison Square Garden on December 31, 1998, as a type of anniversary. After all, the live performance on …
“You have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead. See to it that they have no reason to be ashamed of you.”— Robert Lewis Dabney Earlier this month, you may have heard about a woman from Upstate New York who could lose her multiracial child in a custody battle with the girl’s father …
“This weekend’s desecration at Hollywood Cemetery is morally wrong,” Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney says regarding the March 12 vandalism. “Disturbing final resting places is contemptible, criminal and will not be tolerated.” Huh. Those are some pretty disingenuous statements considering the caustic comments made by the duplicitous mayor about razing the city’s many Southern monuments which …