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Posted by Fr. John on May 2, 2012 · 2 Comments
On March 5, 1958, the New York Times ran the following article: AUTHOR ADOPTS FAITH Elliot Paul, in Hospital, Joins Greek Orthodox Church PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 4 (AP) — Elliot Paul, author, became a member of the Greek Eastern Orthodox Church today in bedside ceremonies at the Veterans Administration Hospital here. Mr. Paul is seriously [...]
Posted by Fr. John on March 19, 2012 · 17 Comments
by Michael Astley from the blog, All of Creation Rejoices. I begin to compose this post with a few disparate ideas floating around in my brain. Perhaps by the end they will have bounced off each other and arranged themselves into some sort of coherent structure. As I have said in the past, before I [...]
Posted by Fr. John on February 22, 2012 · 3 Comments
Interview with Fr. Moses Berry Fr. Moses Berry, an OCA priest ministering at Theotokos “Unexpected Joy” Orthodox Church in Ash Grove, Missouri, has an unusual story. In 1998, he moved with his family from St. Louis to his family’s farm in Ash Grove, near Springfield. Century Farm has been in the Berry family since 1872; [...]
Posted by Fr. John on February 17, 2012 · 10 Comments
by Tamara Schmerse This is the final installment of Tamara’s delightful story about her journey to the Orthodox faith and it is absolutely captivating. We published it in it’s entirety as a series from her blog, My Search For The Truth. Judging from the responses from you, the readers, it has been well received. Thank [...]
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Posted by Fr. John on February 14, 2012 · 4 Comments
by Tamara Schmerse Part 16 of 17. 16: Roman Catholicism In the lead-up to Reformation Day, my beloved History Channel had been screening many Lutheran documentaries, and now that it had passed, they were now, for better or worse, focusing on the Roman Catholic Church. I watched shows for and against, and ironically, it was [...]
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Posted by Fr. John on February 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
by Tamara Schmerse Part 15 of 17. 15: Lutheranism And so there I was again, sitting in between my computer, my Bibles and my Foxtel remote, with no idea of how to proceed further in my search for the Truth. I looked back over my previous few months: I had studied with Jews, and come [...]
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Posted by Fr. John on February 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
by Tamara Schmerse Part 14 of 17. 14: Islam While I had been sniffing around the adherents.com website, I could not help but notice the next most populous group. 1.5 billion people in the world followed the teachings of Islam. And while I had been brought up to believe that the reason their religion was [...]
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Posted by Fr. John on February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
13: Judaism Part 13 of 17. I had begun to feel that the Torah was where the answers were at. A few well-timed Jewish documentaries on the History Channel added to my growing doubt about Jesus being the real Messiah. Along came a young man on Facebook who seemed to smell my moment of weakness [...]
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Posted by Fr. John on February 7, 2012 · 1 Comment
12: The Union of Chanochian Netzarim Yisraelites Part 12 of 17. So back to Facebook it was with a mind that was in some ways more open, in others more closed, and in most, more confused and impatient. Being like the Ethiopian eunuch, before that fateful trip to Jerusalem, I fervently searched the Scriptures daily [...]
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Posted by Fr. John on February 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
11: Jehovah’s Witnesses Part 11 of 17. So at this point I was still, though researching furiously in my free time, faithfully attending Sunday Services at the Methodist Church. I was getting more confused with each passing week, and the “development” of the church was making me most uncomfortable. There were hardly any old hymns [...]
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