By Gavin Smith Recently I was asked by my godfather and good friend, Nathan Lewis, to explain why I left the Church of Christ for the “Eastern” Orthodox Church, hence the title of this article. The suggestion came after he and I discussed another friend of his who was also raised in the Church of […]
Reflections of an Orthodox Pilgrim
by Fr. Brendan Pelphrey Converts to Orthodoxy are frequently asked why we became Orthodox. Since my wife and I were chrismated in 1995 we have answered this question hundreds of times, but often it is difficult to know exactly what to say. It is not that our story changes each time, but that the reason […]
XENO – Who Is the Stranger?
by Fr. John S. Bakas In this story Fr. John Bakas relates the story of an Orthodox Christian convert who saved more Jews from certain death during the Holocaust than Oscar Schindler. We will have more on Chiune Sugihara in the future. In Greek, the word, “xeno,” denotes someone who is a “stranger,” someone that […]
The Journey Home
by Misty Duke My journey home to the Orthodox Church began in my youth. I don’t remember the year, but I know it was a tender one. I remember an old priest in brightly colored vestments, a beautiful church with walls covered in icons, and young girls wearing headscarves approaching the communion chalice. Glory to […]
The Conversion of French Photographer Frere Jean
Photographer Gérard Gascuel who worked with Marcel Marceau and Salvador Dali and now is Hieromonk Gerasimos says he decided to become a monk after hearing an Athonite monk singing. “I was 33 when the editor in chief of an influential Japanese magazine sent me to Greece to make a report about the life of Athonite […]
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