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To Be Black and Orthodox: Part of My Story

April 15, 2016 By Fr. John 30 Comments

by John Gresham, Jr. I have a friend who is considering becoming an Orthodox Christian. She is African-American and is concerned that by joining the Orthodox Church that she would be turning her back on black culture. While she likes everything about the ancient faith, she notices the lack of Negro spirituals and the preaching […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Latest Stories Tagged With: african american, black, convert, John Gresham Jr, orthodox

The Orthodox Man

December 18, 2015 By Fr. John 1 Comment

The story of former Baptist Tommy “Tomas” Rydén As an infant I had been what they call “officially blessed” in the Baptist church of Linköping in front of the congregation. As Baptists the congregants did not believe in any formal baptism of infants. My father, who in his younger years had been trained as an […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Latest Stories, Pentecostals Tagged With: baptist, convert, orthodox, Tommy "Tomas" Ryden

The Letter of an Orthodox Catechumen to His Beloved Daughter

December 16, 2015 By Fr. John 1 Comment

Ray is an inquirer who made contact with us a little while ago, and we have kept in touch with each other as he made contact with a local parish. This is a letter he wrote to his daughter, who attends a protestant university. His daughter recently wrote him back. He is an Orthodox Catechumen, and […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Calvinist, Evangelicals, Latest Stories, Lutheran, Mainline Protestants, Presbyterian, Roman Catholics Tagged With: Calvin, convert, Luther, orthodox, Presbyterian, Ray Iavasile, roman catholic, Zwingli

Why I Became Orthodox: Part Four

December 1, 2015 By Fr. John 8 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Evangelicals, Latest Stories, Other Christians Tagged With: convert, orthodox, Wesley Giesbrecht

Why I Became Orthodox: Part Three

November 30, 2015 By Fr. John 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Evangelicals, Latest Stories, Other Christians Tagged With: convert, orthodox, Wesley Giesbrecht

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