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The Father Of Lights

May 15, 2010 By admin 9 Comments

He said “But I’m going to kill you!” I said “In a minute, there’s plenty of time. You can do it when we’ve finished our game of backgammon.”

Filed Under: Revert Stories Tagged With: 2002, christian, Church, Constantine Georgiades, greek, help, orthodox, prison, revert

Digital Natives Embrace Ancient Church

May 14, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Twentysomethings captivated by Orthodoxy by Andrea Goodell Tim Flinders will graduate from Grand Valley State University next month. Raised Lutheran, he also explored fundamentalist Baptism, Roman Catholicism and even Messianic Judaism before converting to Orthodox Christianity this year. “Orthodoxy has completely transformed me already,” he said. “I feel like the first time in my life […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Lutheran, Roman Catholics Tagged With: 2010, baptist, converts, Hope College, Lutheran, messianic jew, roman catholic

Is There One True Church?

May 13, 2010 By admin 3 Comments

An Interview with Peter Jackson Peter Jackson—a former Protestant missionary and the translator of several books of Holy Scripture into the language of the Kogi people of Colombia, presently a student at Holy Trinity Spiritual Seminary—tells of his road to Orthodoxy. This is an Interview conducted with him on the pages of Pravoslavnaya Rus’ [Orthodox […]

Filed Under: Evangelicals Tagged With: convert, evangelical, Peter Jackson

Through Oxford To Orthodoxy

May 13, 2010 By admin 2 Comments

Archimandrite Meletios (Webber), of Scottish background, was born in London, and received his Masters degree in Theology from Oxford University, England and the Thessalonica School of Theology, Greece. He also holds an E.D.D. (doctorate) in Psychotherapy from the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of two published books: Steps of Transformation; an Orthodox […]

Filed Under: Anglicans/Episcopalians, Clergy Tagged With: 2008, convert, Fr. Meletios Webber, orthodox, Oxford, Scottish

My Conversion from Islam to Orthodoxy

May 12, 2010 By admin 11 Comments

In sharp contrast to the allegation in the Koran that Christians made a human equal to God out of their respect, Christianity taught that God made Himself equal to humans out of His love for their salvation.

Filed Under: Muslims Tagged With: christianity, convert, faith, god, Jesus, koran, Masud Masihiyyen, muslim, orthodox, orthodoxy, quran, zealous

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