Father Joseph Gleason, editor of Russian Faith, is an American-born Orthodox priest who has lived in Russia with his wife and eight children for the past five years. Fr. Joseph also has his own Substack called Fr. Joe’s Newsletter – Moving to Russia: Escaping America & Western Europe and is a contributor to Global Orthodox and the Russian Christian News Syndicate. The good father and I discuss Christian apostasy, Russsophobia, Orthodox prophecies, the “American Village” in Yaroslavl, the double-headed eagle and symphonia, the war in Ukraine and its eight-year lead up, and much more.
Below from left to right: Fr. Joseph with his wife and a few of their children; in Rostov-the-Great (3 hours north of Moscow, not to be confused with Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia); and serving at his parish with two of his sons.



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America was essentially finished in the 1860’s when Father Abraham, aided by New York money men, German 48ers and New England busybodies turned the union of a voluntary confederation into a unitary state without limits.
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I can’t say I disagree with you in the least.
Dissident Mama, do you believe the occupy wall street movement of the 2010’s and this current defund the police/defund the rich stuff is just another puritan yankee crusade?
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Yep. 100%. There’s no better way to upend social order than to try to smash leftist-defined “inequality” … or at least that’s always the claim. The Yankee spirit is revolutionary, one born of constant reform and unrootedness. It may be a different era, but the game is the same: create chaos and then plunder and take power.