“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 …
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 …
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. …