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Eleven Anonymous Turkish Muslims Baptized Orthodox Christians

July 16, 2015 By Fr. John 2 Comments

Eleven Turkish citizens, among them a famous Turkish actor, were baptized in May 2015. The baptism was celebrated by the Metropolitan of Attica. The [original] 13 muslim men and women (between the ages of 30 and 40) were impressed by the beauty of the Orthodox monuments of the island [of Chios], and on their return […]

Filed Under: Latest Stories, Muslims Tagged With: baptism, convert, muslim, orthodoxy, Turkish

Virtual Orthodoxy: Living A Lie

January 31, 2015 By Fr. John 6 Comments

by Fr. Geoffrey Korz The main point is this: If our Orthodox faith is not actually lived out and strengthened by the holy services, it is nothing more than fakery and self-deception. Some people go to Church because they think it makes them good While others occupy their place because they feel they should In […]

Filed Under: JTO Blog, Latest Stories Tagged With: Fr. Geoffrey Korz, orthodoxy, virtual

Why People Become Orthodox

July 30, 2014 By Fr. John 52 Comments

by Fr. Stephen Freeman Now this is indeed a presumptious title for a post – as if there were only one reason that people convert to the Orthodox faith. There are certainly many reasons, nuanced by the various personalities that come. And do they ever come! I was asked in Minneapolis, “What sort of Evangelism […]

Filed Under: Featured, JTO Blog, Latest Stories Tagged With: Fr. Stephen Freeman, orthodoxy

Welsh Church Uncovers Medieval Iconography (Wall Paintings)

June 8, 2014 By Fr. John 3 Comments

Although they seem to have forgotten the word, this is obviously iconography in a Welsh Church, in the Medieval European style – Orthodoxy in the life blood of Welsh churches. Built on the site of a 7th century monastery and founded around 1200, St Cadoc’s in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan is, from the outside, just another beautiful […]

Filed Under: Featured, Latest Stories, News Tagged With: iconography, orthodoxy, Welsh Church

Church As Place Of Mystery And Revelation

May 26, 2014 By Fr. John 2 Comments

Very soon, after my second or third communion, I realized that I was beginning to experience as realities what I had taken to be colorful imagery. the divine energies present in the mystery of the Eucharist open within us a capacity to see, or to sense, spiritual realities to which we were insensible. That sentence is a myth for those without the experience; a reality for those who have it.

Filed Under: Agnostics, Featured, JTO Blog, Latest Stories Tagged With: Agnostic, convert, orthodoxy, Peter France, Rod Dreher

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