For the Orthodox, Pascha is the holiest day of the year. Our entire faith centers around the Empty Tomb. When we allowed the government to close our churches on Pascha, we lost a lot of credibility that is only now being regained.
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For decades, a unified and healthy Orthodox Church has been seen by the U.S. National Security State as a threat to be dealt with.
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Freedom of speech is under attack from both ‘sides’ of the political spectrum. Will A.G.I. emerge as the arbiter and enforcer of acceptable speech?
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MAGA cheers President Trump’s moves for peace in Ukraine, but few are criticizing the push for renewed war in the Middle East and fresh censorship at home. Christians are in more danger than they realize.
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Millennialism, in all its forms, is the curse of the modern world. Whether we believe we can perfect society, or fulfill prophecy to force Jesus to come back, the fruits of this heresy are always rotten. Yet for Americans captivated by thoughts of our own unlimited potential, there is nothing else nearly so attractive as a philosophy.
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Are the Palestinians, particularly the Christians, really Arabs? They speak Arabic and have many Arabic customs, but is that really who they are?
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St. Augustine taught that the only just reason for war was to achieve peace. Unfortunately for Americans, their ruling elite takes its cues more from George Orwell than from Orthodox Catholic saints. In America, war itself is the point.
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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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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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