While Priest James Bozeman nurtures the fledgling Saint James Mission in Beaufort, SC—see related story— his brother, Priest David Bozeman, ministers at another OCA Planting Grant Mission, dedicated to Saint Nektarios, in Waxahachie, TX, a quiet town south of Dallas on Interstate 35. “In 2009, His Eminence, Archbishop Dmitri gave his blessing for a handful […]
Why I Became Orthodox: Part Four
by Wesley Giesbrecht The Scales Tip All throughout the time of my journey, unknowingly, towards Orthodoxy I had this strange intuition that the Orthodox Church was right but it was as if within me there was an Orthodox and a Protestant arguing against each other and time after time the Protestant won. I can recall a […]
Why I Became Orthodox: Part Three
by Wesley Giesbrecht A Shrinking Circle and an Enlarging Ecclesiology I was a part of a prison ministry team with her father and it just so happened that the day she discovered the letter and showed her parents was the day of one of our trips to the prison. The whole time I was nervous and […]
Orthodoxy Makes Russians ‘Extremely Strong’
Japanese Hollywood actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is impressed how Russians respect their Orthodox faith. “I managed to visit New Jerusalem and it impressed me very much. I saw with my own eyes how important for a Russian person are holy shrines, how deeply you respect your faith. Now I understand why the whole world respects the […]
Why I Became Orthodox: Part Two
by Wesley Giesbrecht From Symbol to Sacrament Part of my Evangelical Anabaptist upbringing was a complete rejection of the sacraments. Baptism was only an act of public declaration and the Eucharist (a word entirely foreign to my upbringing; it was simply called ‘communion’) was nothing more than a memorial meal. This was something I held on […]
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