The Mane Man By Gina Mazza Pittsburgh Magazine, August 2009 Football is a given: How was this year’s Super Bowl experience versus XL? Tomlin versus Cowher? Goals for the coming season? Fatherhood is new in Polamalu’s life since the birth of his son, Paisios, named after a beloved contemporary Greek Orthodox monastic, Elder Paisios, on […]
Protestant Baptized Orthodox on Mt. Athos
On Saturday August 8th, 2009 at the Sacred Monastery of Docheiariou on the Holy Mountain, in a touching atmosphere, a German by the name of Dominik Weiel, a 40 year old Geologist, abandoned Protestantism and was baptized Orthodox taking on the name Michael. For a place not known for its technological advancement, it is interesting […]
Starting From Inside the Kremlin
My first experience of an Orthodox church was inside the Kremlin in Moscow. I recall an icon of the Archangel Michael and not much more.
How I Found Orthodoxy
by Elizaveta Wehrmeyer From 1995 to 1997, my husband and I served as Baptist missionaries in Belarus. There, I encountered the Orthodox faith. I also experienced some difficult situations and people that led me to be disillusioned with my own Protestant faith, especially when the Baptist Union of Belarus told us that they did not […]
By Her Prayers…
by Elisabeth Hawkins I want to share how Grand Duchess Elizabeth has helped me in guiding me to Orthodoxy and strengthening my faith. As a divorced single mother, I was living with my eight-year-old son Timothy near Albany, New York. My older brother bad become a monk at Holy Trinity Monastery, in Jordanville, and came […]
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