We need to unplug from the machine, and tune in to God’s reality. Fight for Christian Culture Something is sick in our modern lifestyle. The moral and cultural foundations of society are crumbling, but what are the underlying reasons? Where did we go wrong from the start, and how can we get back to balance? How can we reclaim, here and now, in twenty-first century America, an authentic Christian culture? How can we revitalize an environment, a lifestyle, a series of daily habits and focal...

Our Homes Are Our Domestic Churches “Disorder in the sensible will echo with disorder in the spiritual” (Fr. Francis Bethel 199). Every Christian’s home should become a “little church” — imbued with beauty, order, wholesome rituals, and focus as in the Divine Liturgy. The environment in the home shapes the kind of people we become, whether in worldliness or in kingdom-mindedness, and creates a sanctuary for everyone who walks in through the front door. We Learn Our Humanity from Our Worship...

Make Homes into Sanctuaries The world is starved for holy space. Secular man will find hope not in lectures or social reforms, but only through encountering holiness. This begins in the parish. It then proceeds to the home. Men, women, married or single, young or old, share this mission. We should be willing to sacrifice everything for it — to create homes and sanctuaries for quiet and nourishment. It is in such an environment, untinged by worldliness, “far from the madding crowd, far from...