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 have revised it [...]
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 really questioned the church’s [...]
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 Baptist [...]
Very Reverend Father Silas Ruark
Fr Silas is an American “convert” to Orthodox Christianity. His youth and adult years were lived in the religious context of Evangelical Protestantism (Southern Baptist and Evangelical Free Church of America), where he and his wife Gabrielle worked as Youth Directors and Sunday School teachers, and he as a Deacon.
Fr Silas [...]
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 Lord Jesus Christ to [...]
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 to the Catholic Patriarchate of [...]
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 me?” [...]
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 became Orthodox saints. These [...]
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 his [...]
I am Fr. Antonios from central Java. I am a married priest with one wife: Presbytera Marina , and one son (Ireneus ) and two daughters (Paraskevi and Kyriaki). Ireneus and Paraskevi are in the university, while Kyriaki is still in the primary school. Before I tell my story, I think I should tell you [...]