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My Search For The Truth: Part 6

January 30, 2012 By Fr. John 1 Comment

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

January 27, 2012 By Fr. John 1 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

January 26, 2012 By Fr. John 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

January 26, 2012 By Fr. John 2 Comments

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

January 25, 2012 By Fr. John 1 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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