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Stephen Borthwick

Stephen Borthwick is a history teacher who was raised in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania with a deep love and admiration for Southern culture and sympathy for the Great Cause shared by his Irish-American predecessors who were Copperhead Democrats and mineworkers exploited by Republican industrialists. He is completing his PhD dissertation in European history at Catholic University in Washington, DC and is blessed to be living just outside of Gainesville, Georgia with his wife and (soon to be two) children. 

Ortho Dixie: Orthodox Christianity and Southern Identity Blog

Ortho Dixie: Orthodox Christianity and Southern Identity

Anyone who has grown up in the melting pot of immigrant religiosity of the industrial northeast has a very specific vision of Southern religiosity – evangelical, provincial, low-church, and rabidly anti-Catholic, among other things. Even growing up in a household sympathetic to the South, I had plenty of condescending ignorance about the way Southrons practiced their religion. Grab a Bible,…
Stephen Borthwick
October 20, 2016