by Isaac David Haymes When I was at Durham University in the 1970’s I kept a diary, and I recorded an event which I had completely forgotten until I re-read it a couple of years ago: I attended a talk on the Orthodox Church which so impressed me that I thought about joining. Well, it […]
In the Passenger Seat
by Frederica Matthewes-Green Read far and wide for her whimsical, penetrating and poetic expressions of life and faith, Frederica has quickly become known as the “Orthodox Erma Bombeck.” And rightly so. He was an Episcopal priest, but he was standing in an Orthodox church on this Saturday night and thinking about Truth. At the […]
Through the Eastern Gate
My teacher used to say that Buddhism was ninety nine per cent method and one percent truth.
Strange, Yet Familiar: My Journey: Part 3
Those who predicted that, in becoming Orthodox, I would be cutting myself off from my own people and my national culture have been proved wrong. In embracing Orthodoxy, so I am convinced, I have become not less English but more genuinely so; I have rediscovered the ancient roots of my Englishness, for the Christian history of my nation extends back to a period long before the schism between East and West.
Strange, Yet Familiar: My Journey: Part 2
Orthodoxy, so I recognized in a sudden flash of insight, is not merely a matter of personal belief; it also presupposes outward and visible communion in the sacraments with the bishops who are the divinely-commissioned witnesses to the truth. The question could not be avoided: If Orthodoxy means communion, was it possible for me to be truly Orthodox so long as I still remained an Anglican?
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