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The Journey Of An Old Atheist Convert

January 25, 2014 By Fr. John 11 Comments

by Darrin Thomas Rasberry This arrived in our comments section, and it was too long and too good to leave as a comment. Thanks Darrin! I’m an old atheist convert, arriving at Orthodoxy after following the above pattern of a long study. I spent 15 years as an active nonbeliever, drifting from American Atheists to […]

Filed Under: Atheists, Featured, Latest Stories Tagged With: atheist, convert, Darrel Thomas Rasberry, orthodoxy

A Calvinist Anglican Converts To Orthodoxy

October 24, 2013 By Fr. John 8 Comments

Mark Bradshaw, with Conversations On Orthodoxy, recently interviewed me regarding my conversion to the Orthodox Christian Faith. An audio recording of the interview is available online. Here is a transcript of the interview: Mark Bradshaw: Welcome to another Conversation on Orthodoxy. Deacon Joseph Gleason: I think that when you go into an Orthodox church, and you open […]

Filed Under: Anglicans/Episcopalians, Calvinist, Clergy, Featured, Latest Stories Tagged With: Anglican, Bible, Calvinist, convert, Deacon Joseph Gleason, orthodox

Liturgy, Sacraments, & All That Jazz: Ten Reasons I Joined the Orthodox Church

September 30, 2013 By Fr. John 11 Comments

  by Jamey Bennett I am asked fairly regularly to share my conversion story. I haven’t really written out my journey into the Orthodox Church in a full narrative. I hinted at some things related to my Mormon heritage here, but even that doesn’t quite tell the story. Honestly, I’m not sure I am interesting […]

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My Journey Home… To Orthodoxy

September 30, 2013 By Fr. John 1 Comment

by Charlene Haapala It is difficult to describe the changes that have occurred in my life in the past year. It literally feels as if it has been three years. That may be due to the fact that as a whole, I have slowed down. A few life changes have occurred in the last year […]

Filed Under: Latest Stories, Pentecostals Tagged With: Assembly of God, Charlene Haapala, convert, orthodox, pentecostal

Former Taliban from Afghanistan Baptized on Mount Athos

August 18, 2013 By Fr. John 10 Comments

All these years after work I would go to the outside of the churches in the beginning – something was pulling me there – and afterwards I began to enter within. I would become calm. As my Greek was getting better, I wanted to know more about Christ. I found a New Testament, however it was in a language I did not understand [Koine Greek]. Eventually I found a blue one in the Greek I had learned. I began to read it. I decided that I wanted to become a Christian.

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