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The Well-Thought-Out Conversion
From The Well Thought Out Life blog. You may recognize a few of these names. I promised this post a while ago, when I mentioned that I'd been reading about a number of converts to Eastern Orthodoxy, some that were quite surprising. Supposedly over 70% of priests in … [More...]
Orthodoxy Has Authority In France
An Interview with the Abbot Vasily (Pasquiet) Father Vasily, the first question which comes to mind when one meets you is how you, Pierre Pasquiet, a man of exclusively French origin, became an Orthodox Christian, and not just a layman but a monk and priest, found … [More...]
What Language Is This?
by R. Leo Olson In this excerpt from his memoir, Unlearning God, R. Leo Olson describes his conversion to Orthodoxy from a Protestant fundamentalism as a process of healing from his “spiritual head injuries” and unlearning a problematic understanding of God. … [More...]
Clergy Stories
Renown Scottish Orthodox Priest Dies Just Weeks After Completing His Life’s Work
Another story of Orthodoxy in Scotland. More on Fr. John will be forthcoming next week. One of … [Read More...]
Into Orthodoxy: The Long Journey Home
by Fr. Lawrence Farley In my journey home to Orthodoxy, I took the long way around. I was born … [Read More...]
A Pilgrim’s Podvig: Part Ten
Transition by Fr. John Whiteford As my doubts about Protestantism increased, I found myself in a … [Read More...]
Mission Stories
Rebirth of the Orthodox Church in China – An Interview with Mitrophan Chin
While the presence of Western Christian Churches in China is a well-known fact, many … [Read More...]
Patriarch Kirill Celebrates Divine Liturgy in Beijing
On May 12, 2013, the second week after Pascha, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and … [Read More...]
Streams Of Living Orthodoxy In English Popular Tradition
by Fr. Andrew Phillips “They were old men with no scholarship. They told me of their … [Read More...]
Mass Conversions
Swahili in St. Petersburg
December 16 at 14:30 at the second Winter Orthodox exhibition at the Exhibition Center of the North-West of Russia the priest, Philip Gatari from Kenya, will conduct a prayer service in Swahili, which will be the beginning of the program devoted to the Orthodox Church in this East African country. Father Philip Gatari is priest [...]
More Americans Join the Orthodox Christian Church
An old story from 4 years ago, and becoming more and more true every day! By Tom Breen Greg Mencotti worried he would never find a spiritual home. The Sunday school teacher grew up Roman Catholic, lost his faith and became an atheist. Eventually, he returned to Christianity, this time as a born-again Christian, spending [...]
Another Mass Baptism In Russia
Missionaries performed mass baptism of soldiers at northern Cosmodrome Archangelsk, September 20, 2011 Teachers and students of the St. Tikhon Orthodox Humanitarian University visited the “Plesetsk” cosmodrome near Achangelsk with a missionary program. The trip was made at the invitation of Archpriest Artemy Emke, rector of the Church of Archangel Michael in the town of [...]
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