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November 17, 2025
American Life, Economics & Finance, Online Orthodoxy, Prayer and Spirituality

The Narrow Way is Always Narrower Than You Think

Is true Orthodoxy is far stricter and more uncompromising than most modern believers imagine? This article challenges popular notions of a “broad” or “reasonable” Orthodoxy that accommodates worldly values, progressive theology, or relaxed spiritual discipline.

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October 23, 2025
American Life, Culture War, Literature & Film, Prayer and Spirituality, Western Civilization

Music is a Form of Sorcery

Sorcery is using sounds to create an artificial reality. Everything today is sorcery, because everything today is artificial, and music plays a major role in speaking all that artifice into existence.

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October 13, 2025
Abortion, American Life, Covid Vaccine Safety, Death and Dying, Economics & Finance, Prayer and Spirituality, Science, Technology, Vaccine Mandate Essentials

The Medical Ethics of St John Chrysostom

How much of your soul would you trade for more physical life, if the Tradition of the Church says that death is preferable to taking an evil medicine that could cure you?

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October 2, 2025
American Life, OCA, ROCOR

Astroturfing Tradition: Attempting to Invent a Southern Orthodoxy

In a consumerist age, when every niche group spawns its own “culture,” are we preserving authentic Orthodox Tradition? Or do movements such as the Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship threaten to make our drift away from authenticity even worse?

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September 23, 2025
American Life, Comparative Religion, Culture War, Ecumenism, Palestinian Rights, Peace Activism, Western Civilization

The Jewish Problem: Charlie Kirk’s and Yours

The murder of Charlie Kirk has highlighted the glaring problem America has with Rabbinic Jewish influence over many aspects of government, culture, and society. The New Testament warned us about the consequences.

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September 10, 2025
American Life, Comparative Religion, Culture War, Ecumenism, Prayer and Spirituality, Roman Catholic Church, Theology, Western Civilization

Can Zen Buddhism Fit within Orthodox Christianity? A Research Project

What is the true nature of Orthodox Christianity, and is the faith compatible with Oriental practices such as Zen Buddhism?

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June 30, 2025
Christian History, Theology

Virgin or Young Woman? Looking at Both the Hebrew and Greek Reveals the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Studying a combination of the Masoretic (Hebrew) Old Testament and the Greek Septuagint proves the perpetual virginity of Mary, the Mother of God.

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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 5, 2025
American Life, Communion, Parish Life, Prayer and Spirituality

Maybe Frequent Communion was a Mistake

Frequent communion has come to be viewed as normal, perhaps even almost treated as a “right”. But this was not the case for most of the history of the Church. Perhaps we should think about the implications of receiving the Eucharist so often.

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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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