Daniel B. Rundquist is a Minnesotan by birth, but a Southerner by the grace of God. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rundquist owns his own publishing company, New Plymouth Press, and is an avid writer, a budding amateur historian, the author of five books, and a contributor to the …
Below is Hieromonk Gabriel’s response to the letter I sent to Hermitage of the Holy Cross Monastery. In his heartfelt and forthright message, we are given some explanation and clarification regarding his “Of Wrath and Righteousness” essays. Much of this is positive news, especially that Brother Gabriel is indeed for Confederate monuments staying up unmolested …
I’ve had writer’s block going on a couple months now, and the following letter challenging an essay from “our own” monastery is the cause. I created the main draft and had been venting in written form nearly daily, writing through the anger, the snark, the feelings of abandonment, the heart and head problems of wondering …
Abbeville Institute founders Drs. Clyde Wilson and Don Livingston recently asked me to help out a gentleman who had contacted them regarding history curriculum suggestions for homeschoolers. We “eggheads … are limited to ‘higher education’ in our knowledge,” Wilson replied playfully, so he and Livingston passed on the request to me. Interestingly, veteran homeschoolers sometimes …
I’ve been homeschooling my three sons (now 12 and twins who are 11) going on 8 years. But much of the history curriculum (including Christian materials) either unwittingly or intentionally cheer on what Dr. Paul Gottfried describes as our “secular theocracy,” in which America isn’t defined by tangible commonalities like shared values, faith, and customs, …
David Brooks’ newest for The Atlantic Monthly, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake,” has been making the rounds on social media. My initial comment was: “David Brooks pushing subversion? I’m shocked.” I was assured by a couple smart folks that the headline was “clickbait,” the article was “good,” and that Brooks wasn’t “pushing anything.” Reading …
I began reading “The Land We Love” on the long flight back to the U.S. from Helsinki last January. My family and I had been on a three-week vacation in Russia, and our experiences gave me such a keen insight into the dramatic history and resilience of the Russian people, especially among the rekindled and …
The one and only time I met the warm and hospitable Dr. Boyd D. Cathey was at Confederate Flag Day 2018. We had struck up an email friendship when I had contacted him beforehand about the event’s itinerary. Although I didn’t connect the dots and realize who he was when I first messaged him, I …
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 …
I used to be Protestant. Its teachings are what helped school me away from atheism and bring me much closer to the light of Christ than I’d been since I was a Catholic-church-going girl in my youth. You know, small children really do have such a faithful and pure belief in God, that makes us …