Americans usually see themselves as a force for good in this world. God’s own instrument of history. The last best hope of humanity. The soaring rhetoric of the American religion is even parroted by Orthodox bishops. The truth is much darker.
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Despite its contrived, stage-managed nature, the 2024 Republican National Convention still had spiritual lessons, both positive and negative, that we Orthodox Christians would do well to learn.
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With so many powerful forces arrayed against the Orthodox Church, the enthronement of Patriarch Daniil in Bulgaria must be considered a miraculous victory.
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Since July 4, 1776, there have only been 16 years when the U.S. was at peace. War is our normal state of affairs. As Orthodox Christians, we must teach America how to embrace peace and rid ourselves of rule by the war profiteers.
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Will the “ordination” of a female deacon in Africa be the precedent for more such ordinations? Can Orthodox unity be preserved if local Churches depart from Orthodox consensus? Is it possible that modernization and schism are the real goals?
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Are Roman Catholic Marian apparitions in accordance with Holy Tradition? Or are they something entirely different? Perhaps they are even PYSOPs- faked miracles for sinister purposes?
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US leadership is becoming increasingly unhinged in defending Israel and Rabbinic Jews against even the mildest criticism. Some voices even call for complete annihilation of Israel’s “enemies”. Yet, Americans barely notice when fellow Christians around the world are murdered and persecuted.
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Nicholas from Orthodox Reflections joins Buck Johnson on his Counterflow podcast to discuss the dangerous trend, begun mostly in Red States, to censor and punish speech considered “antisemitic”.
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Nicholas from Orthodox Reflections sits down with Michael Sisco to discuss the regime’s obsession with Orthodoxy, and the troubling trend of “labeling” Orthodox Christians with words that the National Security State now associate with “potential terrorism”.
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The National Security State worries that too many people find the Orthodox Faith’s steadfast rejection of WOKE to be an attractive alternative to Western values. What follows from that is a drive to isolate Christians in the West from the Russian Orthodox Church, and to undermine Orthodoxy where possible.
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