My Search For The Truth: Part 7
by Tamara Schmerse Anglican Part 7 of 17 The defining moment came while I was sitting in a wooden pew of Paul Church, looking out the faraway window upon the sprawling lawns and jagged cliffs of Mousehole. The thought occurred to me that many of my family members must have stared out that same window [...]
My Search For The Truth: Part 6
by Tamara Schmerse Part 6 of 17. 6: Atheist I was miserable. A large part of me was desperately hoping to find anything at all that I could use to support my belief in God. A lightening bolt, a drop of rain, a butterfly; anything that I could use to say “that was a sign! [...]
My Search For The Truth: Part 5
by Tamara Schmerse Part 5 of 17 5: COC During this time, some of my uni friends had been accosted by the Red Frog Brigade. This was a Christian group that maintained a presence wherever there was fun and youth. They ran a bus service every Sunday night from the campus to the huge COC [...]
My Search For The Truth: Part 4
by Tamara Schmerse Part 4 of 17. 4: Baptist My husband, and his family, were pretty well-known in the Baptist Church, and for all the wrong reasons. My father-in-law had made himself a nuisance in almost every Bible study group they ran, and my youngest brother-in-law was constantly the darling of the youth group, then [...]
My Search For The Truth: Part 3
by Tamara Schmerse Part 3 of 17 3: Names I had always remembered something my mother had said when I was younger, about her only regret was not sending me to Sunday School like she had done, because I had never learnt the “fear of God”. So I figured, especially since my parents and I [...]
My Search For The Truth: Part 2
2: Friends As a child, the rental property next door had many different tenants. For a large chunk of my Primary School years, it was occupied by a very nice family called Robinson, who had children my age and younger. The first memory I have of them is the girl, Sarah, asking me over the [...]
My Search For The Truth (And Subsequent Finding Of It): Pt 1
by Tamara Schmerse Part 1 of 17 This delightful story of Tamara’s journey is captivating. I’ve decided to publish it in it’s entirety as a series from her blog, My Search For The Truth. Enjoy this excellent journey, and thank you, Tamara, for allowing us to republish it! My Search For The Truth (And Subsequent [...]
“Why I Am Not An Atheist”
An Interview With Dcn. Andrei Kurayev By Nadezhda Pronina Feb 9, 2007 The Voice of Russia Why I Am Not A Christian? — this is the title of the popular book by the celebrated English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell, which has been translated into many languages. For our program, however, we have chosen a [...]
Chinese Students Convert To Orthodoxy
Chinese students living in Vladivostok increasingly convert to the Orthodox faith, undergo the sacrament of baptism and become regular parishioners of Vladivostok temples, informs ITERATES citing the press-service of the Vladivostok-Primers diocese The latest converts to Orthodoxy were two girls from Beijing. Together with baptismal crosses they received Orthodox names – Fatima and Hope. Fatima [...]
The God Of Our Fathers
I wanted to tell everyone I “found” the Orthodox Church like it was a million dollars! My return to the Orthodox Church was only a beginning of a journey, but at least now I knew the path. I compare it to living on a patch of dirt your whole life and never knowing that right underneath this dirt there is a well with hidden treasures of indescribable beauty.
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