Archive for August, 2009

Episcopal congregation embracing Orthodox Faith (2009-8-17)

July 9, 2007 (Daily Oklahoman) –A new Orthodox Christian church is forming in north Oklahoma City.
Mark Wallace, a former Charismatic Episcopal priest, is leading his former congregants through becoming an Orthodox Christian congregation. Wallace and many members of his former Holy Trinity Charismatic Episcopal Church are taking classes and attending services at St. Elijah Antiochian [...]

Through The Eastern Gate (2009-8-17)

By Nilus Stryker
I had been a Buddhist for ten years. I was ordained after seven years of study with my teacher in a small family line of the Nyingma Lineage of Vajarayana (Tibetan ) Buddhism. I had a Spiritual Master in that lineage whom I loved and still love. He was, and continues to be [...]

Retrospective on the EOC Reception into the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese (2009-8-17)

Retrospective on the EOC Reception into the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese

By Very Rev. Peter Gillquist
We arrived at the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese headquarters in Englewood, New Jersey, and the moment the door opened I knew my life would change forever. “Welcome home,” burst from Sayedna’s lips after we, the delegation representing the Evangelical Orthodox Church, [...]

WHY I BECAME AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN (2009-8-17)

By Athanasius Yoo, M.D., B.D.
My long pilgrimage to the Mother Church has been completed. As I think back over
the long road of this pilgrimage, I become filled with deep emotion. For by the
grace of God, I, a stray sheep, have found the lovely bosom of the Good
Shepherd, the true body of Christ, – the One, [...]