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By Her Prayers…

August 15, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lutheran, Mainline Protestants Tagged With: baptist, convert, Dutch Reformed, Elisabeth Hawkins, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Lutheran, methodist, orthodoxy

A Priest’s Journey to Orthodoxy

August 6, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

by Fr. Janis Kalnins As an Orthodox priest, I am often asked the question, “How is it that you, a Latvian, were drawn to embrace such a non-traditional Faith? After all, Latvians are predominantly either Lutheran or Roman Catholic.” It grieves me that so many people have a narrow, nationalist understanding of Orthodoxy. In my […]

Filed Under: Clergy, Mainline Protestants Tagged With: 2005, Clergy, convert, Fr. Janis Kalnins, Latvian Orthodox Church, Lutheran

The Otherworldiness Of Liturgy

July 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

by David Trace I first became exposed to Orthodoxy as an undergraduate over twenty years ago. I was taking a Russian language course and was told that a local Orthodox parish had a Russian festival.  The professor recommended it.  To my knowledge she was not Orthodox.  I went and purchased my first icon.  Each year […]

Filed Under: Anglicans/Episcopalians, Lutheran Tagged With: David Trace, Episcopalian, festival, Kallistos Ware, Lutheran, Russian

The God Of Our Fathers

June 16, 2010 By admin 5 Comments

Re-converting to the Orthodox Christian faith

I wanted to tell everyone I “found” the Orthodox Church like it was a million dollars! My return to the Orthodox Church was only a beginning of a journey, but at least now I knew the path. I compare it to living on a patch of dirt your whole life and never knowing that right underneath this dirt there is a well with hidden treasures of indescribable beauty.

Filed Under: Atheists, Baptists, Evangelicals, Lutheran, Mainline Protestants, Revert Stories, Roman Catholics Tagged With: atheist, baptist, Bible, catholic, convert, evangelical, god, Holy Communion, Jesus, Lutheran, methodist, orthodox, pentecostal, Presbyterian, protestant, revert

The Thirsty Pilgrim’s Journey

June 4, 2010 By admin

Thirsty Pilgrims Journey to Orthodox Christian church

On Wednesday and Friday, the student body was treated to a veritable “Who’s Who” in the Charismatic Word of Faith world. All the top TBN tele-evangelists visited during my four years. The student body would get all hyped up about the newest theological trend and mantra for getting God to give you stuff…Protestantism was like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy.

Filed Under: Evangelicals, Lutheran Tagged With: conversion story, convert, Joshua Garrett, Lutheran, Oral Roberts University, orthodoxy, ORU

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