THE DAILY PODVIG

In yet another sign of how darned small the community of church-going Orthodox singles is in this country, the Orthodox dating website saintlycourting.com matched Antonia Walter to a man she’d broken up with a mere six months earlier. At first the dating profile...

After several years of confusion over when he’s allowed to recognize events in the lives of parishioners, Father Antony of the Church of All Saints of Southern North Dakota has put a sign labeled “no good news” on the Confession stand. As all things told to him during...

Hi! We’re delighted you’re reading The Daily Podvig, your source for Orthodox humor and satire in fictional articles. It’s been a while without new posts. There are five reasons for that: The editor took a series of graduate-level classes in environmental economics....

Or: These twenties aren't roaring Or: Why it's been hard to write humor latelyMost articles on The Daily Podvig are told in third person about fictional people. This one will be different with me, your editor, (Eric Thomas Ruthford) telling you a story about real...

Local Orthodox couple Gregory and Marina Glidewell, happily married for almost 15 years, came to a crisis point recently when Marina was going through boxes in the storage closet and discovered several boxes of icons they had been meaning to display. She called her...