My friend and brother in Christ, Ben Dixon, joins me for my 90th interview. He is the new operations manager of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, of which I’m a co-founder, so the two of us talk all things Southern Orthodox, most notably the upcoming Conference 2.0, taking place in Lockhart, Texas, September 6-8. Deadline for …
Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, Ancient Faith Radio will host its “first special edition of Ancient Faith Today Live” in which Fr. Tom Soroka and John Maddex will “take a deep dive into the topic” of the “Orthodox Deaconess.” AFR states, “The story of the Orthodox Deaconess is largely unknown today. When did they exist, …
I began this series chronicling my experience planning the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship’s inaugural conference with “Armed & ready at the gate,” explaining the impetus for the event and some of the hurdles of the early stages. I then followed up with “A dark horse in these dark times,” taking a look at the spiritual warfare …
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”— Ephesians 6:12 I concluded my previous essay “Armed & ready at the gate” about the planning of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship inaugural conference by eluding to …
“Don’t be deceived regarding the knowledge of what will be after your death: what you sow here, you will reap there. After leaving here, no one can make progress. Here is the work, there the reward; here the struggle, there the crowns.”— St. Barsanuphius the Great That truism of the Orthodox way is one of …
Rev. Dr. Ignatius Lozano is the priest in charge of St. Andrew the First-Called Orthodox Church in Lockhart, Texas. After growing up a Roman Catholic and serving as an Anglican priest for several years, Fr. Ignatius (or Fr. Iggy as he is usually known) came home to Orthodoxy a little more than a decade ago …
Fr. Dcn. Ananias Sorem, PhD is the founder of Patristic Faith. He is an Orthodox apologist and teaches philosophy at Fullerton and Carroll colleges. To learn more about Father’s educational training, his current academic work, and his traditional Orthodox teachings, click here. In our conversation, Father and I talk about Orthodox MontaNIKA, a successful conference …