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Category: Western Civilization

August 7, 2025
American Life, Culture War, Western Civilization

Winning Battles, Losing Wars

So-called “conservatives” are so anxious to “own the libs” that they are willing to embrace an ad campaign that not long ago would be considered softcore porn. This is not Orthodox Christianity.

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July 9, 2025
Christian Persecution, Orthodox International Relations, Palestinian Rights, Syria and the Middle East, Western Civilization

Why Does the U.S. Fund Jihad While Christians are Murdered?

If Israel and the West Israel are in a fight to the death with Islam, why do we fund jihadis and watch passively as they murder Christians?

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July 2, 2025
American Life, OCA, Technology, Western Civilization

Praxis Nation: Tech Bros Discover Vitalism

The rising techno elite has discovered vitalism in an attempt to revive a crumbling Western Civilization, just as Seraphim Rose predicted. Orthodox Christianity offers a better way.

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June 13, 2025
American Life, Economics & Finance, Political Activism, Politics and Christian Governance, Western Civilization

MAGA Betrayal in Context: There is No Representative Government

Trump’s recent actions on immigration, fiscal policy, privacy, and war are making MAGA Republicans very upset. There was never any chance for a different outcome.

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June 5, 2025
Culture War, Ecumenism, Greek Archdiocese, Leftist Infiltration of the Orthodox Church, LGBTQ+, Technology, Western Civilization

Perpetual War on Hitler: The Open Society Consensus

The Post WWII crusade against the foundations of Western Civilization doesn’t stem from a conspiracy. Worse, it comes from a consensus.

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May 30, 2025
American Life, Culture War, Orthodox Missions, ROCOR, Western Civilization

A Message to Orthodox Hierarchs on Masculinity from Three Orthodox Christian Men

An Orthodox bishop finally responded to the ongoing slew of MSM articles casting aspersions on the growth of the Orthodox Church, especially among young men. Unfortunately, he is a bishop in the wrong country focusing on the wrong message.

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May 14, 2025
Economics & Finance, Greek Archdiocese, Parish Life, ROCOR, Theology, Western Civilization

How Involved Can Orthodox Christians be in Moneylending and Modern Finance?

If usury is a sin, but our entire modern economy is based on it, how are Orthodox Christians to live godly lives?

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May 2, 2025
Economics & Finance, Politics and Christian Governance, Theology, Western Civilization

Make Usury a Sin Again

Usury was once considered a sin. Grounded on Old Testament condemnations of the practice, Church Fathers strictly forbade the lending of money at interest. What was once reviled has now become the basis of our entire dysfunctional economy. We need to make usury a sin again.

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April 10, 2025
Christian History, Comparative Religion, Prayer and Spirituality, Western Civilization

The Fandom Menace and The Early Christian Church

If the early Church of the 1st to 4th Centuries was actually Evangelical, what would we expect to see in the historical record?

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March 10, 2025
Politics and Christian Governance, Western Civilization

Resistance to Evil by Force

Orthodox Political Theology, Part II: Christian Service in War; Legitimacy, Symphonia, and the Role of Sobornost.

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