My Search For The Truth: Part 10
Posted by Fr. John on February 3, 2012 · 4 Comments
by Tamara Schmerse Part 10 of 17 10: Congregation of Yahweh By this time, Facebook had become a mainstream communication tool, and so I incorporated it into my search methods. I would Google different denominations of Christianity, read the accompanying Wikipedia article, find the customary Facebook group, and then begin adding its members as Facebook [...]
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My Search For The Truth: Part 9
Posted by Fr. John on February 2, 2012 · 5 Comments
by Tamara Schmerse Presbyterian Part 9 of 17 I looked again to my work. The small company I worked for was a hotbed of religious tension, as among its 10-15 staff, you would find 10-15 deeply pious Christians of very different denominations. Being that it was a workplace, religion was not discussed very often, but [...]
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My Search For The Truth: Part 8
Posted by Fr. John on February 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
by Tamara Schmerse Methodist Part 8 of 17 I remembered something I had discovered when doing my family tree research several years earlier. An ancestor of mine, by the name of William Carvosso, had written a book in the year 1815, about his experiences with God and the Church. I had managed to secure myself [...]
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My Search For The Truth: Part 7
Posted by Fr. John on January 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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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! [...]
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My Search For The Truth: Part 5
Posted by Fr. John on January 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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Convert Priest Builds His Own Church
Posted by Fr. John on January 26, 2012 · 3 Comments
I suspect we are going to see many more solutions like this. After all, Jesus was a carpenter! This man built his own jewel of a church… out of a garden SHED Perhaps Father Stephen Weston took inspiration from the fact that Jesus was the son of a carpenter when he built Britain’s smallest church [...]
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An Orthodox Baptism in the Home of John Quincy Adams
From our friends at OrthodoxHistory.org On January 20, 1811, an Orthodox baptismal service took place at the home of the future President of the United States John Quincy Adams and his wife Louisa. At that time they were living in St. Petersburg, Russia. Louisa Adams took an active part as one of the Godparents of [...]
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My Search For The Truth: Part 4
Posted by Fr. John on January 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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My Search For The Truth: Part 3
Posted by Fr. John on January 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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