Journeys to Orthodoxy

By Alice Tallmadge, Correspondent The Oregonian, Sunday, April 9, 2000 From Ashland to Portland, the Orthodox tradition is drawing Oregonians to its ancient depths EUGENE — The Saturday night buzz is revving outside the doors of St. Eugene Orthodox Church in the Whiteaker neighborhood. Motors race. Doors slam. Nearby taverns begin to fill with eager ...

By Rowland Croucher and others 16th March 2005 Most stunning perhaps was, in 1996, the conversion of Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale University’s celebrated church historian and Luther scholar. Here is a man who has co-edited 22 of the 55 volumes of Luther’s Works in English, and then late in life he “moved East,” as some theologians ...

  By Father Joseph Huneycutt I’m a Southerner. I was born and reared a Southern Baptist; educated as an Episcopalian, and converted to Orthodox Christianity a decade ago. Since then, I’ve been struggling to be Orthodox. As a missionary priest, I’ve also struggled to bring others to Orthodoxy in the South. More than anything, I’ve ...

Bishop Robert F. Waggener (in the middle, for our ECUSA friends). Bishop Robert F. Waggener will trade his bishop’s mitre for a priest’s biretta in the Western Rite. Bishop Waggener, who until recently served as bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Cross, has become the first Continuing Anglican bishop to convert to the Antiochian ...

Amy Johnson Frkyholm Amy Johnson Frykholm is the author of Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America. This article appeared in The Christian Century, December 28, 2004. pp. 18-20. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscriptions information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online ...

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 ...

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 ...