by Fr. Barnabas Powell In this, the first of a series of four articles on Pentecostalism and his journey to the Orthodox faith, Fr. Barnabas Powell sets the stage for his own spiritual odyssey. STRANGE FIRE Recently, Dr. Vincent Synan, Dean of the Divinity School and Regent University and long time historian of the Pentecostal […]
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The Catechumens of Lewistown, MD
“This is what we have longed for and hungered for—to finally be joined to the ancient Church established by Christ and the Apostles…”
Later American Mission
The Later Missionary Years In 1867, Bishop Peter (Lyaskov) of Sitka was succeeded by Bishop Paul (Popov) and in this year the first study of the life of the Elder Herman of Spruce Island was initiated. In 1870, Bishop John (Metropolsky) was appointed and he transferred the center of the American Church from Sitka to […]
Surprised By Christ
Priest’s Conversion from Judaism to Christianity Documented in New Memoir Conciliar Press Ministries is pleased to announce the release of a new spiritual memoir of a man’s conversion from Judaism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Raised in Queens, New York by formerly Orthodox Jewish parents whose faith had been undermined by the Holocaust, Arnold Bernstein went […]
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 […]