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12 Reasons Why I Became and/or Remain an Orthodox Christian

February 10, 2014 By Fr. John Leave a Comment

by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Lists like this are usually so much clickbait, I know, but I thought it was nevertheless worthwhile to compile a list of most of the reasons why I became and/or remain an Orthodox Christian. Some of these things were not really on my radar when I became Orthodox in 1998, […]

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First Orthodox Church in Pakistan Consecrated

February 9, 2014 By Fr. John 13 Comments

On February 6. 2014 the first consecration of an Orthodox Church occured in Lahore, Pakistan. Fr. John Tanveer is the priest who founded and built the parish. Attending the Consecration were: Metr. Konstantinos of Singapore and Fr. Martin Ritzi, Executive Director of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), who secured an anonymous donation that made […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mass Conversions, Missions, Muslims, News Tagged With: Church, Fr. John Tanveer, Pakistan

The Journey Of An Old Atheist Convert

January 25, 2014 By Fr. John 11 Comments

by Darrin Thomas Rasberry This arrived in our comments section, and it was too long and too good to leave as a comment. Thanks Darrin! I’m an old atheist convert, arriving at Orthodoxy after following the above pattern of a long study. I spent 15 years as an active nonbeliever, drifting from American Atheists to […]

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Why People Convert To Orthodoxy

January 24, 2014 By Fr. John 12 Comments

by Robert Arakaki On 30 December 2013, W. Bradford Littlejohn published “The Search for Authority and the Fear of Difference” in The Sword and the Ploughshare.   He began by noting how he learned second hand (??) about a longtime Reformed Christian who decided to convert to Eastern Orthodoxy because “he needed someone to submit […]

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Missionary Logic: Too Little, Too Late

December 16, 2013 By Fr. John 14 Comments

by Fr. Barnabas Powell “Jack” was a missionary to Ethiopia providing free education, but his subtler task was to convert the locals from the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church to his modern form of American Christianity. There was just one problem. He found himself drawn to the beauty of the faith that the apostles brought to […]

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