With a rainbow-colored, black-power-fist emoji, Republicans like Texan John Cornyn lecture us that Juneteenth is “a history lesson that must be taught,” while libertarian Rand Paul offers up platitudes that Juneteenth is a celebration of “the inherent freedoms we share as Americans.” Man, do I feel the freedom, y’all! Kristi Noem, a supposed hero of …
November 21 is the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos. We Orthodox celebrate this event, when as a small child Mary was brought by her parents to the Jerusalem Temple to be raised among the consecrated virgins in service of God until the time of marriage. The Temple community, headed by Zacharias (father of …
Today, we Orthodox Christians remember the beheading of St. John the Forerunner. It is one of the six feast days for the devout man known also as John the Baptist, who was an ascetic, the cousin of Jesus, first preacher of the Kingdom of Heaven manifested by the appearance of Christ on the earth, the …