“For all who surround him are ready to smite and overthrow him, not only his enemies and foes, but many of those who pretend to love him.” — St. John Chrysostom, “On the Priesthood“ Merriam-Webster defines a “double standard” as “a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of …
“If a man is passionate or mean, or conceited or boastful, or anything else of the kind, it [the priesthood] unveils all his shortcomings and speedily lays them bare.” — St. John Chrysostom Note: The following essay is part-parody of the blog post “Open Letter: OCA priest participates in Trump riot, reported to FBI” and …
Jason Kessler is a freelance journalist and activist who has written for VDare and The Daily Caller. He got his break in journalism exposing the racial double-standards surrounding the Twitter posts of Charlottesville Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy, who was pushing to remove a historic Confederate monument after going on anti-white rants for a period of close …
Every January, I recoil as both a Christian and an American at the tedious and noxious deification of Martin Luther King, Jr. As my friend Boyd Cathey explains so thoroughly in his bold synopsis of the Cult of King and the corrupt cottage industries built upon the malevolent mythos, MLK is “that deeply and irredeemably …
Just as Charlottesville is eternally imprinted into the American psyche as “the deadly white-supremacist rally,” this week’s pro-Trump, anti-elite protest in Washington is successfully being tarnished as “mob violence” and “a siege.” The pearl-clutching is pretty epic, even for a postmodern people. “Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol” and “rioters breached security,” go the contrived commentaries …
Where was the constitutional duty to act forcefully when BLM and Antifa goons romped and rampaged across the country? None was evident. By Ilana MercerJanuary 8, 2021 Why repeat hackneyed phrases about annus horribilis 2020? Recall the opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities, a classic by Charles Dickens. Interspersed in that epical introduction are countervailing, sweetness-and-light words. Excise these—and …
Episode 26 features Laura Blodgett, a homeschooling veteran of seven children. Blodgett is the creator of The Happy Homeschool blog and podcast. “My goal …. is to inspire and equip you to create a learning environment that makes home everyone’s favorite place,” she explains. “I think that happens most easily and with the most satisfying …
By Daniel B. Rundquist By now everyone knows there is a pandemic sweeping across the American landscape. It started rather quietly and at first went nearly unnoticed by most of us. This pandemic soon accelerated and quickly caught the attention of the global media, our federal and state level politicians, and by our local officials. …
Today I talk with Jennifer Grinwis of Nan’s School of Dance, which was started by Grinwis’ mother Nan in 1975. Jen became director in 2002, and she and her husband Jon have owned the company since 2008. The dance studio has two North Carolina locations: Greensboro and Yadkinville. It’s a family business with deep roots, …
Despite all the state has done to “liberate” children from the strictures of the traditional family, as any child will tell you, more than anything, he yearns for a mom and dad like Ralphie’s. By Ilana MercerDecember 24, 2020 Described by a critic as “one of those rare movies you can say is perfect in …