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A Filmmaker’s Return to Faith

December 9, 2015 By Fr. John 1 Comment

From The Blaze Like most of his friends growing up in what used to be Yugoslavia, Goran Radovanovic was raised a communist. But at the age of 40, the Serbian film director felt the inexplicable urge to be baptized a Christian and thus return to the Orthodox Christian roots of his grandparents. “I felt this necessity […]

Filed Under: Featured, Latest Stories, News, Revert Stories Tagged With: Goran Radovanovic, orthodox, revert

The Singer Who Became A Nun

September 16, 2011 By Fr. John 2 Comments

The story of Mary Alexopoulou, a successful musician of the 1960’s and who today is an abbess named Theonymphi (tr. Bride of God), can be divided into two parts: first as a singer until 43 years of age, and second with the life she lives now among the faithful in her monastery not far from […]

Filed Under: Revert Stories Tagged With: Mary Alexopoulou, nun, orthodox, singer

To Convert or Not To Convert?

December 4, 2010 By admin 33 Comments

No priestly act is of more far-reaching consequence than a conversion to Orthodoxy. Throughout the Christian era the Orthodox Church has been exposed to constant oppression and frequent massacres. Yet no Orthodox Christian ever worried about the survival of the Orthodox Church. Therefore the survival of the Orthodox Church does not depend on numbers, but solely on the intensity of our Orthodox commitment.

Filed Under: Revert Stories Tagged With: conversion, convert, Fr. Leonidas, orthodox, proselyte, revert

The Quiet Cradle

July 12, 2010 By admin 26 Comments

by Janice Bidwell Though Janice’s story isn’t really a ‘revert’ story (someone who grew up in the faith, left and re-converted), it is an excellent example of someone who has grown up as a believer! As a cradle Orthodox Christian, for most of my life I’ve been quiet about my faith. My silence did not […]

Filed Under: Other Christians, Revert Stories Tagged With: 2010, cradle, Janice Bidwell, orthodox

The God Of Our Fathers

June 16, 2010 By admin 5 Comments

Re-converting to the Orthodox Christian faith

I wanted to tell everyone I “found” the Orthodox Church like it was a million dollars! My return to the Orthodox Church was only a beginning of a journey, but at least now I knew the path. I compare it to living on a patch of dirt your whole life and never knowing that right underneath this dirt there is a well with hidden treasures of indescribable beauty.

Filed Under: Atheists, Baptists, Evangelicals, Lutheran, Mainline Protestants, Revert Stories, Roman Catholics Tagged With: atheist, baptist, Bible, catholic, convert, evangelical, god, Holy Communion, Jesus, Lutheran, methodist, orthodox, pentecostal, Presbyterian, protestant, revert

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