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The Well-Thought-Out Conversion

May 24, 2013 By Fr. John 20 Comments

From The Well Thought Out Life blog. You may recognize a few of these names. I promised this post a while ago, when I mentioned that I’d been reading about a number of converts to Eastern Orthodoxy, some that were quite surprising. Supposedly over 70% of priests in the Orthodox church in America today are […]

Filed Under: Featured, Latest Stories Tagged With: Fr. Peter Gillquist, Francis Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer, Frederica Matthews-Greene, Jaroslav Pelikan, Joel Kalvesmaki, John Maddex, Kallistos Ware, Matthew Gallatin, Peter Jackson

Circling the Airport

December 3, 2012 By Fr. John 1 Comment

by Dylan and Margaret Jenkins 1996-1997: Unwitting Passengers Our journey to Orthodox Christianity began just prior to our marriage in June 1996 upon meeting Meg’s sister’s new boyfriend, John Oliver.  John had a transformative experience at the Valaam Monastery two years earlier (documented in his book Touching Heaven) and had recently converted to Orthodoxy.  John […]

Filed Under: Evangelicals Tagged With: Dylan and Margaret Jenkins, Fr. John Oliver, house church, Jaroslav Pelikan, orthodox, primitive, sola scriptura

Lutheran Scholar Converts To Orthodoxy

April 28, 2010 By admin 1 Comment

“When the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod became Baptist, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became Methodist, I became Orthodox.”

Filed Under: Lutheran Tagged With: 2005, convert, Jaroslav Pelikan, Lutheran, orthodox

 



 

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