For more information on writer Walt Garlington as well as resources on the Orthodox view on the departed, the meaning of a Saint and their veneration, explanation of old vs new calendar, and funeral hymns and prayers, click here. By Walt Garlington Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the …
My Orthodox brother and Dixie compatriot Walt Garlington has given me permission to cross-publish his monthly “Remembrances,” which will be posted at the beginning of each and every month throughout 2023. Garlington, a chemical engineer turned writer, is editor of the website Confiteri: A Southern Perspective and has had his essays published at the Abbeville Institute, …
Those of you from the South have most likely grown up eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. Typically, they’re served with a “mess” of greens, such as collards, mustard or turnip greens, or even cabbage. Each region has its own tasty ritual. “Cook your beans low and slow, ideally in a slow cooker. For …
“Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must be Eastern. The West was fully Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies.”— St. John Maximovitch There’s a contingent of haters – dare I say, a conspiracy – that has …
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 …
My friend Carl Jones shared this today in a Facebook thread: “How many churches will play ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ tomorrow across the South, unaware that the song is un-Christian, rejects the salvation of Christ, and celebrates the murder of Southerners by the terrorist, John Brown?“ “’His terrible swift sword’ refers, not to …
Alleged “scholar” verbally attacks Christian missionary organization. Slanders founders. Receives pushback. Gets butt hurt. News at 11. It sounds like a Babylon Bee story. But it’s apt framing of a recent essay posted at Public Orthodoxy, the website of Fordham University’s “religious studies” program. My compatriot Monomakhos has been studying Fordhamite subversion for years and …
“What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be …
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 …
“Instead of lies, we should only be forthright, as St. Paul says:‘Therefore, putting away falsehood let everyone speak the truth with his neighbors’ (Eph. 4:25).”— “These Truths We Hold — The Holy Orthodox Church:Her Life and Teachings“*St. Tikhon Seminary Monastery, 1986 My last essay Stirring the pot critiqued Dr. Aram Sarkisian for bearing false witness against …