Conservatism Requires a Religious Foundation
by Russell Kirk – The conservative believes that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. … There is a divine power higher than any political power. When a nation ignores the divine authority, it...
View ArticleForming a Moral Foundation is Vital in Educating Children
by Anthony Esolen – The forming of a moral imagination is not something additional in the education of a child. It is the education of a child. What is remarkable in our age is not that half of our...
View ArticleTexas Orthodox Priests Reject Fr. Arida’s Scandalous Teaching on Homosexuality
by Texas Orthodox Priests – Statement of the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Clergy Association of Houston and Southeast Texas on the Comments of Fr. Robert Arida on Homosexuality In response to Fr. Robert...
View ArticleOrthodox Church Categorically Condemns All Homosexual Behavior
by Editors – The following information originally appeared in The Word, January 1984, pp. 6-11. The Word is the official news magazine of the Antiochian Archdiocese. Published monthly (with the...
View ArticleWho Will Rescue the Lost Sheep of the Lonely Revolution?
by Anthony Esolen – We do not have Pharisees who preen themselves for having followed the letter of the law and missed its soul. We have Pharisees who preen themselves for disobeying the law, even the...
View ArticleNational Suicide? Cutting Off a Society’s Ethical and Religious History
by Archbishop Charles Chaput – If human laws do not reflect the deeper law of God, there is little chance of survival. That is why people of faith must participate in politics and public life because...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Prayer: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) – We can turn to God with a great variety of petitions. We can ask Him not only for that which is sublime and spiritual, but also for that which is essential for us...
View ArticleDefining Moral Crisis of Our Age
by Danny Lemieux – One of the fundamental problems in our society is that we argue with one another from positions of moral parochialism: we assume that the other party shares our frames of reference....
View ArticleAn Orthodox Perspective on Tolerance
by Rdr. Daniel Manzuk – We are bombarded with the message that we are to be tolerant of the beliefs and practices of others. “Tolerant,” however, has come to mean “accept and condone without question...
View ArticleThe Truth is Always ‘Offensive’
by Trevor Thomas – True followers of Christ tell the truth with courage, conviction, and love. They also peacefully, but strongly, stand up to the lies of liberalism, Islam, and the like. This is...
View ArticleU.S. Constitution Does Not Prohibit Religious References in Public Places and...
by Mike Miller (Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) – During a speech at Colorado Christian University on Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the U.S. Constitution does not...
View ArticleWhy the Silencing and Persecution of Christians will Continue
by Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. – The number of subjects we cannot talk about in public discourse are rapidly multiplying. The older notion of “free speech” as a search for the truth through reasonable...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Prayer: “Hallowed Be Thy Name”
by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) – What do the words “Hallowed be Thy Name” mean? The Name of God is already holy in itself, bearing within itself the force of holiness, spiritual strength, and the...
View ArticleAre All Ideologies Evil?
by Steven Jonathan – One of the finest American teachers acquiesced a few years ago to be my mentor. I am a stranger to the good man, but he agreed to answer my questions because he is in possession of...
View ArticleChristianity is Truth and Reality, Not Mythology
by Garet Pahl – The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. By becoming a fact it does not cease to be a myth. God is more than a god, not less. Secular mythologists would claim that...
View ArticleGiven an Omnipotent, Fully Good and Loving God, Why do Good People Suffer?
by Mackenzie Mulligan – That is the question for the ages. The suffering of bad people, of evil people, is (for some) an easier question. There is a notion of cosmic reparation, whether of impersonal...
View ArticleHow Are the Passions Born and How We Fight Against Them?
by Andrei Gorbachev – Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, reasoned one of the friends of Job the Much-Suffering (Job 5:6). Because for the Christian,...
View ArticleTo Be Healed We Must Open Ourselves to God
by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh – Each of us is in need of physical healing and of the healing of our soul. And yet, only a few are healed — why? What we miss in the reading of the Gospel is that...
View ArticleHow Christians Can Rebuild Our Culture
by Charles J. Chaput – It’s in seeking Jesus Christ with all our hearts that culture is built and society is renewed. It’s in prayer, the sacraments, changing diapers, balancing budgets, preaching...
View ArticleLet Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay – Clear Christian Preaching on Sin...
by Sergey Khudiev – There are questions which we cannot avoid and from which we cannot hide in a fog of rhetorical questions and vague allusions. Basically, there is the question of whether single-sex...
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