Update June 2023: My friends at Monomakhos wrote an essay entitled “‘Gay Pride’ Month, a Brief Retrospective” which includes an excellent video debunking “the myth that homosexuality was not only normative in Ancient Greece, but idolized as the romantic ideal” in order to push the normalization of sexual deviancy on the modern masses through the …
“Why couldn’t she just be a lesbian?” is a refrain I’ve heard regarding my gender-confused teenage niece, whom I wrote about in Life with a Rainbow Mafioso. It’s a shocking statement, really, illustrating the nihilistic depths to which we’ve sunk. Drowning in unremitting depravity, we’re gasping for breath, desperately trying to get our heads above …
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 …
Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh wrote that “we have become a country filled with numb, detached, and desensitized people. Mass shootings are the ultimate manifestation of that detachment.” “These are empty, numb, detached people slaughtering their fellow humans because they are bored and frustrated with their meaningless lives,” he continued. But if it’s “detachment and …
“Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called anti-Semitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?” Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman asked Shulamit Aloni in 2002. “Well, it’s a trick, we always use it,” Aloni replied. “When from Europe somebody is criticizing …
Matthew Silber, a.k.a. “Lewis Liberman,” was the type of guy you could contact with a moment’s notice and explain, “Hey man, can I tell you about this essay I’m working on? It’s pretty radical. Uh, do you think you could come up with a compelling lead graphic by, say, tomorrow?!” His reply was almost always …
“But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” — Matthew 5:13 Salt is valuable. It is a commodity because it can disinfect, preserve, enhance flavor, and prevent slipping. Thus, in both a Christian and …