by Joel Kalvesmaki My Pilgrimage Mine is the short but turbulent life. Since May 1993 I have been vigorously pursuing the faith of the Apostles as witnessed to by the early Church. This spiritual journey has led me, a strongly committed Protestant Evangelical, to seriously pursue conversion to either the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox […]
My Journey to Orthodoxy
by Vicki Jones Like most folks who weren’t “born” Orthodox, I have a story of my trip getting here. It’s not a particularly entertaining story, like that of Fredrica Matthewes-Green’s vision in an Irish church. But it’s mine, and I’d like to share it with you in the hope that you see at least a […]
From First Baptist to the First Century
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?
Our Journey into Orthodoxy
by David and Elise Sumner We were chrismated at St. George in January of 2005 and converted to Orthodoxy from the Episcopal Church. Our journey took place over the last few years as we began reading books about Eastern Orthodoxy. Several things about Orthodoxy, and especially the Antiochian Orthodox Church, attracted us. We felt pulled […]
From Unchurched Hawaiian to Local Orthodox
As a church history major I became painfully aware that much of what passes for Evangelicalism: the altar call, the symbolic understanding of the Lord’s Supper, the inductive bible study method, minimalist creed, the rapture, all have their origins in the 1800s. This means that Evangelicalism is a modern innovation as is Liberalism.
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