From the daily archives:

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Recovering the Ancient Paths

April 25, 2010

By : Dennis L. Corrigan “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever” The following is a revision of a letter (article) we wrote to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel to explain our decision to withdraw from that organization in order to pursue our being catechized unto Chrismation into the Orthodox Church. We ...

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Following His Heart

April 25, 2010

By: Jennifer Moody Albany Democrat-Herald Former Albany man talks about journey to Orthodox religion When he was 15 years old, Stan Brittain read a newspaper article that changed his life.He had lived in Albany for 10 years, attending a Lutheran church with his grandparents in keeping with his family’s traditions and Germanic background. He hadn’t ...

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Evangelicals Turn Toward … the Orthodox Church

April 25, 2010

By Jason Zengerle The ministry is a calling, but it is also a career, and, in 1987, a Baptist minister named Wilbur Ellsworth was given the career opportunity of a lifetime. After nearly two decades of pastoring modest congregations in California and Ohio, Ellsworth, at the age of 43, was called to lead the First ...

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Edward Justin:My Journey to Orthodoxy

April 25, 2010

This Reading Consist of Three Parts 1. Edward Justin’s Journey to Orthodoxy 2. Letters he wrote back to his former pastors in the Bretheren church 3. Letter to his Beloved A Summary Raised in a wonderful, loving, godly, Protestant (or, more precisely, Anabaptist) Christian home, I grew up believing in God and calling upon the ...

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Philippine denominations join the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Aust. & NZ

April 25, 2010

Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand PRIMATE To be read from the pulpit To all of our reverend clergy and beloved faithful, Greetings to all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We would like to inform you that after long discussions with two denominations from the Philippines, one belong ...

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Samurai’s Journey to Orthodox Church in Japan

April 25, 2010

The son of a samurai and son-in-law of a Shinto priest, Takama Sawabe was a fierce Japanese nationalist. He hated Christianity and all foreign influences in his country. One day he angrily confronted the Orthodox Christian missionary to Japan, a Russian priest-monk named Nicholas (Nicolai). Father Nicholas spoke to him: “Why are you angry at ...

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ST GREGORY PALAMAS, TWO ITALIAN CONVERTS AND TWO CIVILIZATIONS

April 25, 2010

ORTHODOX ITALY :: ST GREGORY PALAMAS, TWO ITALIAN CONVERTS AND TWO CIVILIZATIONS The essence remains unapproachable, but the energies come down to us St Basil the Great, Ep. 234, 1 Introduction The Russian Orthodox Church knows of two Italians who fled Italy after the Roman Catholic schism in the twelfth century, came to Russia and ...

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Letter from a Man Who Traveled West to East

April 25, 2010

My Journey to Orthodoxy, a Letter from a Man Who Traveled West to East Here at Read The Spirit, we often welcome visiting writers to tell their spiritual stories. Poets, pastors, management consultants, comic book artists, counselors and educators, among others, have told their stories here. Today, David Adrian, a public relations consultant, writes about ...

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