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Interview With A Seminarian

July 30, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

My thanks to Dave Brown for directing me to this excellent interview! Professor of Theology, Dr. Robert Moore-Jumonville of Spring Arbor University, interviews SAU Alumnus Matt Brown about the Orthodox Church, his conversion to it from Methodism and his future life as a seminarian at St. Tikhon’s: Interview with a New Seminarian Source  

Filed Under: Evangelicals, Methodist/Wesleyan Tagged With: Church, Dr. Robert Moore-Jumonville, interview, Matt Brown, new, orthodox, seminarian, Spring Arbor University, St. Tikhon Seminary

The Journey To The East

July 22, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

From Roman Catholic to Eastern Orthodox

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 […]

Filed Under: Roman Catholics Tagged With: bi-ritual, Church, convert, filioque, liturgy, orthodox, papal, roman catholic, Thomas Reidman, worship

Evangelicals Turn Toward … Orthodoxy

July 11, 2010 By admin 3 Comments

The Conversion of Fr. Wilbur Ellsworth By Jason Zengerle The ministry is a calling, but it is also a career, and, in 1987, a Baptist minister named Wilbur Ellsworth was given the career opportunity of a lifetime. After nearly two decades of pastoring modest congregations in California and Ohio, Ellsworth, at the age of 43, […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Clergy Tagged With: baptist, Bible, Christ, Church, convert, First, Fr. Wilbur Ellsworth, god, Illinois, Jesus, liturgy, orthodox, preacher, Wheaton

Why I Abandoned Papism

July 8, 2010 By admin 4 Comments

by Bishop Paul Ballaster-Convolier Bishop Paul de Ballester-Convallier: A contemporary Neomartyr of Orthodoxy (25th anniversary of his martyrdom: 1984-2009) Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the death as a martyr of the late Bishop Paul de Ballester-Convallier (1927-1984). As a memorial to him we reprint here his article which explains why and how he […]

Filed Under: Clergy, Roman Catholics Tagged With: Bible, Christ, Church, convert, god, Jesus, martyr, Paul Ballaster-Convolier, roman catholic

From Oral Roberts University to Orthodoxy

June 28, 2010 By admin 3 Comments

Eastern Orthodox Pastor has far-flung roots What Antony Hughes did all these many years ago at Oral Roberts University Graduate School of Theology and Missions in Tulsa was zig when he was supposed to zag. Here was your basic Southern Baptist who, at this beacon of the charismatic movement, first vectored from his evangelical roots […]

Filed Under: Baptists, Clergy Tagged With: 2007, Antiochian, Church, conversion, convert, Fr. Anthony Hughes, Oral Roberts University, orthodox, ORU, Southern Baptist, zag, zig

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