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It’s finally here! Called To Serve: A Basic Bible Survey For Orthodox Christians is finally available in Chinese, translated by Bede Siaw Hong Phan, in paperback workbook or as an Ebook (PDF) delivered right to your inbox. This is the only Bible survey workbook of the Holy Scriptures containing all of the books of the [...]
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 yourself in Russia, and not simply in Russia but [...]
From Orthodox Field Guide, comes a fictitious story of a visit to an Orthodox Church. Sometimes we forget what a first time visit can be like! When one first enters an Orthodox church, it may be a scary or intimidating experience. There is often confusion about what everyone is doing, when and why they’re going [...]
Friends of Journey To Orthodoxy; Since JTO won the Eastern Christian New Media Award for best Domestic Website/Blog last year, we’ve been inundated with contacts – requests for information, chats, emails and even some phone calls! This keeps us up several hours per day and night corresponding with inquirers seeking information on Orthodoxy and parishes [...]
by Fr. Andrew Phillips “They were old men with no scholarship. They told me of their thoughts: the things they said within themselves as they sailed with the stars and with the wild waters about and beneath them. I have never heard fairer things than fell from the lips of those unlettered men. It was [...]
by Fr. John Whiteford Back to Square One Eventually, it began to dawn on me that I was where I was because I had turned away from God, and so I began to repent. I finally began to again feel a peace and a joy that eventually overcame my depression, and got me out of [...]
Tatyana Mendesh Korreiya shared her journey to Orthodoxy in an interview by Fr. Dimitriy Smirnov. “Maniaku” woman I became Russian Tanya at birth. My father named me so. Many people think that I took the name on my own because I liked how it sounds. But that’s not true. I grew up in a foster [...]
You have to begin by overcoming your commitment to do nothing! Here are 8 practical everyday actions you can take to effectively engage the culture around you. These steps guarantee that the needs of those outside the Church are a serious concern – that is the foundation of successful evangelism. 1. Start conversations. Just talk [...]
Hey, we’re trying! Support this important work by clicking here. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has urged the clergy to conduct more active missionary work among Internet users. “The mission of the Church can and must be widely spread to the Internet. Blogs, social networks – all then are offering new opportunities for [...]
by Robert Arakaki With its many denominations Protestantism is no stranger to people changing churches, but there is something deeply unsettling about a Protestant family deciding to move over to a nearby Orthodox parish. The phrase “swimming the Tiber” or “crossing the Bosphorus” alludes to the deep chasm separating Protestantism from the two ancient traditions [...]
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