by David E. Sumner Dr. Robert Saler is a former Lutheran pastor and currently a professor and associate dean at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. After growing up in southern Illinois, he received a bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University. He earned two master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and a master’s and PhD […]
Dcn Michael Bishop’s Journey to Orthodoxy
by Deacon Michael Bishop “Joseph, what are you doing in my neighborhood?” “This is my church!” “That’s a Catholic church?” “Yes, Ukrainian Catholic!” I was in the sixth grade and living on Illinois Avenue. From Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic Church one could look into U.S. Soldiers’ Home, the place where Abraham Lincoln lived when he […]
My Journey to Christian Orthodoxy
by Christopher Petersen My name is Christopher Petersen, and this is my story of coming into Orthodoxy. I was not at all raised in a religious household. We started attending Church after both my grandparents had passed away. I’d say I was in 6th or 7th grade. My father’s family was Lutheran so that is […]
The Crisis in the Church of England and the Attraction of the Orthodox Church
By David Gilchrist This article is taken from a pamphlet originally written in November 1993, and revised in 2019. The family I came from was firmly Evangelical and Protestant. I started life as a Presbyterian in Northern Ireland, and when we came to England, we worshipped first with Anglicans, and later with Baptists. It was […]
Anglican to Antiochian
by David E. Sumner The Anglican Communion, from where I came to Orthodox Christianity, consists of churches in 40 countries that grew out of the Church of England. The Episcopal Church—the American branch of Anglicanism—was brought here by English settlers 100 years before the American revolution. I was a member of the Episcopal Church for […]
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