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Why People Convert to Orthodoxy

August 22, 2017 By Fr. John 3 Comments

  by Robert Arakaki On 30 December 2013, W. Bradford Littlejohn published “The Search for Authority and the Fear of Difference” in The Sword and the Ploughshare. He began by noting how he learned second hand (??) about a longtime Reformed Christian who decided to convert to Eastern Orthodoxy because “he needed someone to submit […]

Filed Under: Evangelicals, JTO Blog, Latest Stories Tagged With: conversions to Orthodoxy, convert, orthodoxy, Robert Arakaki

Why People Convert To Orthodoxy

January 24, 2014 By Fr. John 12 Comments

by Robert Arakaki On 30 December 2013, W. Bradford Littlejohn published “The Search for Authority and the Fear of Difference” in The Sword and the Ploughshare.   He began by noting how he learned second hand (??) about a longtime Reformed Christian who decided to convert to Eastern Orthodoxy because “he needed someone to submit […]

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Crossing the Bosphorus

January 22, 2013 By Fr. John 41 Comments

by Robert Arakaki With its many denominations Protestantism is no stranger to people changing churches, but there is something deeply unsettling about a Protestant family deciding to move over to a nearby Orthodox parish.  The phrase “swimming the Tiber” or “crossing the Bosphorus” alludes to the deep chasm separating Protestantism from the two ancient traditions […]

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Why Americans Need An All-English Liturgy

September 18, 2012 By Fr. John 60 Comments

by Robert Arakaki In 2007, Christianity Today published an article, “Will the Twenty First Century be the Orthodox Century?“  In it Bradley Nassif argued that Orthodoxy will indeed grow and expand in this coming century.  But in an Again Magazine article, “The Orthodox Christian Opportunity,” Nassif noted although many people are converting to Orthodoxy, significant […]

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From Unchurched Hawaiian to Local Orthodox

September 12, 2010 By admin

As a church history major I became painfully aware that much of what passes for Evangelicalism: the altar call, the symbolic understanding of the Lord’s Supper, the inductive bible study method, minimalist creed, the rapture, all have their origins in the 1800s. This means that Evangelicalism is a modern innovation as is Liberalism.

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