A former Wall Street broker has swapped Manhattan for a monastery in Bulgaria to become an Orthodox monk. Hristo Mishkov, 32, had a successful career as a broker on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York until he decided to give it all up to return to his native Bulgaria. Exchanging tailored suits and expensive […]
The Journey To The East
by Thomas Reidman In September of 1990, I enrolled at the Immaculate Conception College Seminary for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. Having been raised a Roman Catholic, I felt the calling to study for the priesthood. I really knew little about many of the specifics of my faith then, and knew virtually nothing […]
The Otherworldiness Of Liturgy
by David Trace I first became exposed to Orthodoxy as an undergraduate over twenty years ago. I was taking a Russian language course and was told that a local Orthodox parish had a Russian festival. The professor recommended it. To my knowledge she was not Orthodox. I went and purchased my first icon. Each year […]
Amish Man Follows His Heart To Orthodoxy
Dairy farmer’s highly unusual conversion results in excommunication from his church, community by Jim Carney Josef Klarr wanted to know about the origins of the Christian church. Klarr, 39, grew up Old Order Amish in Ashland County and began studying the roots of the church. He went to the library at the Ashland Theological Seminary […]
The Path of Kyriaki-Fevronia Ka’akau
by Kyriaki-Fevronia Ka’akau If someone told me four years ago that I would become Orthodox I would have suggested psychological testing! Before moving to Washington in 1996, I was a Protestant for 26 years, hopping from one church to another. There was always something missing but I couldn’t identify it. My marriage of 16 years […]
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