1. Orthodoxy provides the only valid reason to follow their authority.
2. The Orthodox do what the early church did.
3. You can enjoy apostolic tradition without being Catholic.
4. Sound, sane morality is preserved.
5. Orthodox leaders have cool beards like hipsters …
The Orlando nighclub shooting: did it happen as advertised by the media … or not? I am always suspicious—and I will talk more about that—but either way, all of us are talking about Orlando. And that is where we get defeated. But there is a way to victory. Who sets the agenda?
Rex Tillerson must be a villain. Trump’s pick for Secretary of State received in 2012 Russia’s “Order of Friendship” Award from Vladimir Putin himself.
The former Exxon CEO joins, among many others, such Friend of Vlad Award villains as the Canadian Prime Minister, the head of the European Jewish Congress, two astronauts, a figure skater, and Lebron James’s basketball coach.
The world’s largest movement of communes began in Chattanooga. Is it good, bad, or slavery?
Video here. Audio podcast here. James Perloff is a prominent author exposing the New World Order, formerly a contributing editor of the John Birch Society's "New American" magazine, and a prolific alternative news writer. He share his journey to Eastern Orthodoxy and finding the church that follows the Early Church in its beliefs and practice.
Video here. Audio podcast here Theological beliefs are not blocking union and communion between two of the largest branches of ancient Christianity, according to an Orthodox scholar and hierarch in America.
Youtube here. Audio podcst here. According to longtime anti-communist and anti-New World Order author James Perloff: "Unlike so many U.S. officials who, indoctrinated by the Council on Foreign Relations, place global interests above America’s, Putin is a nationalist who looks out for his own citizens. . . Putin has signed into law a ban on ads for abortions, while calls for ending abortion altogether in Russia grow. . . Among the Russian people, Putin enjoys unsurpassed popularity."
Youtube here. Audio podcast here. Today's occultic and atheistic society in the West can be traced back to basic theological decisions of the Church a thousand years ago. Both Catholics and Protestants ignored certain key basic philosophical teachings of the historic, Eastern Church the first thousand years, choosing instead to hold the emphases of Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle as more important than the Fathers of the Church.
Youtube here. Audio podcast here. From Baptist to Charismatic to Presbyterian-Reformed Calvinist, to Catholic and then Eastern Orthodox. Jay Dyer of JaysAnalysis.com has been on a wild spiritual ride and landed rather splendidly.
I always wanted to be part of a Christian tradition that went all the way back to Christ and the Apostles. But I thought to do that you had to be a Roman Catholic. It turns out that’s not the case. The Orthodox call the Pope “the first Prostestant,” because he protested and rebelled against the original church.
Let me provide a brief church history, terribly truncated by me and certainly from my perspective: Jesus laid his hands on the Apostles and actually began the institutional church (now a dirty phrase!) and “the gates of hell have not prevailed against it.” It continues today in the form of the Orthodox Church. In around 1000 AD the Patriarch of Rome broke off from the rest of the Patriarchs because he wanted to change the Council of Nicea of A.D. 325.. And, of course, he wanted to be in charge. For a thousand years, the church had been “ruled” by hundreds of bishops coming together in a full council to decide the core truths of Christianity. No one man was in charge. They did this less then ten times in 1000 years. From these councils we crystallized the teaching of divinity of Christ and divinity of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the divine and human natures of Christ, and other foundational Christian beliefs.
I decided I would celebrate the Christmas season the really old-fashioned way this year by praying it in several times a day at a monastery. I had one other agenda item: deciding whether or not to ask Dottie to marry me.