Christianity & Islam Compared
by Photios Kontoglou “Eastern peoples are more religious”, an ancient writes, wishing to say that Easterners are more religious than people in the West, in Europe. Note that East is also the Balkans together with Russia. To an Easterner feeling is more intense than reasoning, while the opposite happens with a European; and since faith [...]
A Jesuit Missionary’s Journey To Orthodoxy
by Fr. Leo Arrowsmith The Society of Jesus was my spiritual home for 24 years. 13 of those years were as a Jesuit missionary in Japan. Only after returning to the US and leaving the Jesuits to marry Denise Mason did I finally come into contact with Orthodoxy. It all started in my prayer closet [...]
A Brief Description Of My Journey To Orthodoxy
The following is a recent article I wrote for the parish news letter at Holy Trinity Church in Santa Fe, NM. I grew up in an evangelical family who attended the local Methodist church where I was taught that the Bible and prayer are necessary parts of one’s daily life. The spiritual grounding that I [...]
From First Baptist to the First Century
How could a fire-breathing, radical free-church, “don’t tread on me,” Southern Baptist end up in a liturgical and hierarchical church, especially one so foreign to my Southern/American ethos?
The Short Walk Home
by Dwynwen East A few days ago I knelt beside a cupboard in my home ready to tackle the boring but very necessary and long overdue task of clearing it out. I could tell a great deal about that cupboard and its contents but I haven’t the space. Come to think of it that is [...]
The Pilgrimage of 77 Years
by Peter Cowling My pilgrimage to Orthodox Church has lasted seventy-seven years. It has been a process of slow evolution rather than a quick revolution. It has been a search for the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. My first fifteen years were spent in Methodism, where I learned something of the Bible, and to [...]
From Islam to Indonesian Orthodox Priest
by Fr. Yohanes Bambang Cahyo Wicaksono I was born of the Islamic Family on May 15, 1958 in Mojokerto – East Java-Indonesia. As usual in the Islamic family, I was educated as a devoted person in the Islamic Religion by my parents. Because the Grace of God, in the year 1977, I converted to be [...]
How Christ Changed A Muslim Imam
It doesn’t get any better than this. Enjoy, and proclaim the Gospel! This is the story of a man who used to seek out Christians on the way to Church to beat them, now, after an encounter with Christ, has left Islam and is studying and working as a missionary! Thanks be to God! Thanks [...]
“Now You Know You Are Ready For Baptism”
“You asked for a sign. That is what you received. Now you know you are ready for baptism.”
A Foretaste Of Heaven
by Nicholas McNeish I have been asked how I became an Orthodox Christian. As the Americans would say, that is the $64,000 question! I was brought up as an Evangelical, “middle-of-the-road” Church of England Christian, passing through my formative years at a Church School, attending Church Services four times on a Sunday, five when I [...]
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