@ShaneSchaetzel@TaylorRMarshall Many of the inquirers at my parish are former RCs. The water is rising time to get aboard the Ark.
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The Bulgarian March for the Family, which took place two weeks ago in Sofia, is an Orthodox Christian demonstration of celebrating faith and traditional family values.
Bravo to our Bulgarian brothers and sisters! Praise be to the Lord.
“We have already established that self-assertive pride is the guiding force in the life of modern man. This pride has rejected God and declared that man is god unto himself. There is no sin; anything is lawful and allowable for man. Any restriction...a violation of his freedom.."
Today we celebrate Vidovdan, one of the most important National Holiday.
On this day in 1389 Serbian army led by the Holy Prince Lazar defended Christian Europe from the Ottomans, in the Battle of Kosovo.
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This is Saint Anastasios of Persia, one of the many Iranian Orthodox martyrs of pre-Islamic Iran, martyred by Zoroastrians-Mazdeans in 4th century. Iran was one of the first countries to acknowledge receiving the message of salvation in Christ.
The well documented growth of Orthodoxy in America is leading to an enormous wave of conversion of young families joining the faith. As the Serbian Times stated, “A recent study by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of Orthodox Christians in America. In the last four years, the number of members of Orthodox churches in America has grown from 700,000 to 6 million.” In November of 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Saba said, “We are transitioning from an ‘immigrant church’ to a Church of evangelization.”
And while we all pray this wave of conversion is only just the beginning, there is another wave forming alongside it. A quiet movement formed in homes as mothers wake early, make a cup of coffee, cook breakfast for their children, and sit at a table together—not only to pray, or learn about Orthodoxy as a family, but to educate. A shift that involves curriculum choices, daily rhythms, endless books, and teaching our children to be both apologetics for the Orthodox faith and independent thinkers with a love of learning. This movement is the wave of homeschooling that is quickly rising among Orthodox Christian families.
Did you know? Tell those Zionist.
Julian, a nephew of Constantine the Great (the first Christian emperor), opposed Christianity fiercely. He saw the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD by the Romans as proof of Christianity's claims—that the old Jewish system was superseded. To challenge Jesus' prophecy that "not one stone would be left upon another" (e.g., Matthew 24:2), and to undermine Christian theology, Julian permitted (and even funded) the Jews to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount.
He issued edicts allowing Jews back into Jerusalem (banned since Hadrian's time in 135 AD), appointed officials like Alypius of Antioch to oversee the project, and promised to complete it himself after his Persian campaign. Work began around 363 AD, with foundations laid and excitement among Jews.
But disaster struck almost immediately. Contemporary accounts (from Christian writers like Gregory of Nazianzus, and pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus) describe how terrible balls of fire erupted from the ground near the foundations, burning workers and making the site impossible to approach. An earthquake shook the area, scattering stones and halting progress. (This 363 AD earthquake is archaeologically confirmed in the region.)
The project collapsed. Julian died soon after in battle against the Persians, and his Christian successors had no interest in continuing. The site remained in ruins until later Islamic construction (like the Dome of the Rock in the 7th century).
And people ask me why I became orthodox, when you have demonic possessed congregation leaders who are wolves in sheep skin calling for blood death and nuclear destruction.
I have never claimed to be a theologian but I do have two degrees in theology and have been a priest for 17 years.
NOWHERE in the bible or in any serious theology I have ever read are Christians told that we should start wars to hasten the return of Jesus.
This is a perversion of our faith.
I am no fan of Islam or the Iranian regime. But this is also straight up insane and there’s nothing Christian about it whatsoever. American evangelicalism is false. Orthodox Christianity is true.
It's time to COMPLETELY BAN evangelical Christians and anyone with ties to Israel from holding positions in US government
They are going to destroy us all