See, we are not the only ones who baptize in outdoor pools out of necessity! Novomoskovsk, Russia, July 29, 2019 Photo: monasterium.ru The entire Russian Orthodox Church and beyond celebrated the feast of St. Vladimir, the Equal-to-the-Apostles, and the 1,031st anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’ Saturday and yesterday, with the main celebrations occurring in […]
Why Are Protestants Converting To Orthodox Christianity?
Cole Knight, a former Anglican, got Baptized in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church. He shares his witness of it.
Evangelical to Orthodox – Another Journey Story
by Arlyn Kantz In 2011, I began sneaking around and two-timing the evangelical home church I’d attended from my youth. Fort Worth is a big city. You can live a double life for a good long while. I took Willson (my eldest son who has severe autism) and sat on the back pew of St. […]
“My Soul Dries Out Without the Church”
by Geraldio Lau Gefaldo Our hero is a remarkable young man. He was born and grew up in Indonesia. Raised in Protestantism, through a thorny spiritual search he found and embraced Orthodoxy and was even blessed to serve as a reader in the house church in the Indonesian city of Surabaya [an important port on […]
Bitten by Pascha
by Josh Lowery My period of Orthodox inquiry began around the summer of 2010, but it wasn’t until February of 2014 that my wife and I uprooted from our Evangelical church home and started attending at an Orthodox parish. That church was a very small (at the time) parish in a northern suburb of Dallas, […]