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 …
The rabid anti-Semitism spewing forth from the 2020 National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) and its Naming Commission in its final report aims to tear down the iconic artwork of Jewish sculptor and Civil War veteran Moses Ezekiel, who was not only the first Jewish cadet at the Virginia Military Institute but was also the “the first …
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 …
Knowing full well the avalanche of libel under which Dixie has been buried for far too long, we rebels rightly denounce US propaganda aimed at the Confederacy, our ancestors, heroes, and symbols, and Southern-hate in general. So why embrace the same lies spouted by the same pathological liars and for the very same pathological reasons …
In a recent segment connecting the dots between Washington’s wild-eyed foreign adventurism in Ukraine and the domestic war on the middle class, Tucker Carlson explained that the Biden administration had declared “total economic war on a sovereign country,” even though “no American had been killed (and) the United States had not been invaded or attacked.” …
“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 …
“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 …
“Southerners adhere to the basic tenets of orthodox Christian belief more than other Americans, even the general run of Catholics. Indeed, the South is the only Protestant society remaining in the world that is not post-Christian.” Historian Dr. Clyde Wilson wrote these words more than a decade ago. Much has changed since then … and …