One Year Later, Asking the Hard Questions
Have you prepared yourself mentally and spiritually for the next round of COVID restrictions, perhaps this time facing greater tools of oppression?
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Riches to Rags
In a materialistic society, honor goes to those achieving great wealth. Within Orthodox Christianity, exalted are the riches of poverty.
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There is No Free Market or Democracy in America
F.A. Hayek wrote, “We have progressively abandoned that freedom in economic affairs without which personal and political freedom has never existed in the past.” The US and the West have descended into an oligarchy, leaving us free in neither politics nor economics.
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Book Review: A Pack of Cigarettes for the Mind
Brother Christos Hayward shows an understanding of the pressures and absurdity of modernity in a way few monastics even attempt. In particular he focuses on the cancer of technology and industrial society.
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Three Big Questions for Protestants
Orthodox Christians naturally leap to defend their ancient Faith. Sometimes, though, it is more effective to make Protestants defend theirs.
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Central Bank Digital Currency is the End of Freedom
The US is moving at high speed towards a Central Bank Digital Currency. What could that mean for personal and religious liberty?
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Americanism vs Christianity
Is Americanism our national religion? How can the Orthodox Church put down roots in competition with an American individualistic ethos?
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3 Harmful Myths Most Christians Believe About Judaism
What if some of the most important facts that American Christians think they know about Judaism and Jews are actually myths?
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The Episcopal Church—A Cautionary Tale
Ecumenical engagement with Anglicanism is increasing. A former Episcopal priest issues a sobering, personal warning to his Orthodox family about the dangers.
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God’s Children Shouldn’t be for Sale, But They Are
In the movie the Sound of Freedom, we are forced to confront the horrors of child sex trafficking. God’s children are being sold, while we avert our eyes.
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