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From Baptist to Byzantium: Part Four

October 3, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

by James Early Departure As we began to think about what to do once our two-year mission term was over, we sensed no clear direction from God. At first, feeling the great weight of all the stressors that we had dealt with, we thought that we might take a break from mission service. I thought […]

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From Baptist to Byzantium: Part Three

October 1, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

by James Early Prague For about two years after I received my calling into international mission service, I kept my eyes open for a short-term trip that I could join with, so that I could get a small taste of what missionary service would be like. Nothing really seemed right until early 1995, when I […]

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From Baptist to Byzantium: Part Two

September 29, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

by James Early Growth I jumped into the activities of my newly adopted parish and faith with both feet. I immediately started attending Sunday School, worship on Sunday morning and evening, a college Bible study on Friday evenings (more on this later), and I even joined the college choir. Despite all my church activity, however, […]

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From Baptist to Byzantium: Part One

September 27, 2010 By admin 3 Comments

By James Early Everyone who has converted to Orthodoxy from another tradition has a unique and interesting conversion story. There is no such thing as a “typical” story. Because of this, I cannot claim that my conversion story is all that different from the (non-existent) “typical” story. Nevertheless, after having related my experience dozens of […]

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From First Baptist to the First Century

September 13, 2010 By admin 5 Comments

How could a fire-breathing, radical free-church, “don’t tread on me,” Southern Baptist end up in a liturgical and hierarchical church, especially one so foreign to my Southern/American ethos?

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