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Dissident Mama, episode 54 – Shayne Swenson

Shayne Swenson is a professional Orthodox iconographer and painter living in rural Washington State. He specializes in creating iconography from several different periods and historic Orthodox locales, both Eastern and Western. In addition to iconography, Swenson is also involved in the study and practice of academic oil painting with an emphasis on utilizing the techniques …

We ain’t skeered … but they are

Alleged “scholar” verbally attacks Christian missionary organization. Slanders founders. Receives pushback. Gets butt hurt. News at 11. It sounds like a Babylon Bee story. But it’s apt framing of a recent essay posted at Public Orthodoxy, the website of Fordham University’s “religious studies” program. My compatriot Monomakhos has been studying Fordhamite subversion for years and …

Love your neighbor as yourself – except if he’s a Dixian

“Instead of lies, we should only be forthright, as St. Paul says:‘Therefore, putting away falsehood let everyone speak the truth with his neighbors’ (Eph. 4:25).”— “These Truths We Hold — The Holy Orthodox Church:Her Life and Teachings“*St. Tikhon Seminary Monastery, 1986 My last essay Stirring the pot critiqued Dr. Aram Sarkisian for bearing false witness against …