HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Greg Mencotti worried he would never find a spiritual home.
The Sunday school teacher grew up Roman Catholic, lost his faith and became an atheist. Eventually, he returned to Christianity, this time as a born-again Christian, spending years worshipping in a Methodist congregation. Still, he felt his search wasn’t over.
That led him to [...]
I was raised in the Oneness Pentecostal movement until I was twelve years old. My mother was more devout, and my dad had stopped attending church by the time I was around six or seven. The Oneness Pentecostals are a very, very strict sect of the Pentecostal churches. I remember when we had no television [...]
This letter was sent to the ORTHODOX mailing list in response to another letter, and is used here with permission.
September 30/17, 1995 – Martyrs Sophia and her daughters, Faith, Hope and Love
I am a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, serving in the cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington, D.C. There [...]
An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English Concerning Conversion to the Eastern Orthodox Churches–A Work in Progress
by William M. Klimon
This bibliography concentrates, though not exclusively, on the recent converts to Orthodoxy in the United States and Great Britain, but will be expanded to include works from other periods and places. In addition, there are several [...]
VLADIVOSTOK. Chinese students living in Vladivostok increasingly convert to the Orthodox faith, undergo the sacrament of baptism and become regular parishioners of Vladivostok temples, informs ITERATES citing the press-service of the Vladivostok-Primers diocese.
The latest converts to Orthodoxy were two girls from Beijing. Together with baptismal crosses they received Orthodox names – Fatima and Hope. Fatima [...]
Amy Johnson Frykholm is the author of Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America.
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