Православие.Ru Поместные Церкви Православный Календарь English Српска

Архив RSS Карта сайта

Православие.Ru

English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy

Авторы сайта

А Б В Г

Д Е Ж З

И Й К Л

М Н О П

Р С Т У

Ф Х Ц Ч

Ш Щ Э Ю

Последние поступления

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

New Lenox man converts to Orthodoxy to find history and majesty in ancient faith

While the famous quote, “Go west young man,” alludes to growth and maturity, John said he found his spiritual growth and maturity by researching the Eastern expression of Christianity as found in the Orthodox churches and is now planning to become an Eastern Orthodox priest.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

"God Told Me, You Must Convert to Orthodoxy!"

Interview with Priest Stanislav Rasputin

Priest Stanislav Rasputin, Priest George Maximov

Today Father George’s guest is an Orthodox priest and missionary Stanislav Rasputin, who was formerly a member of the Salvation Army. In this interview we learn how Father Stanislav found this path to Church, what may help Protestants overcome their prejudice against Orthodoxy, and how important missionary work is for every Orthodox Christian.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Hidden Fire: Orthodox Perspectives on Yoga

Joseph Magnus Frangipani

The postures of yoga are not religiously neutral. All of the classic asanas have spiritual significance. For example, as one journalist reports, the Sun Salutations, - perhaps the best-known series of asanas, or postures, of hatha yoga - the type most commonly practiced in America - is literally a Hindu ritual.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

"I Believe in the Future of Orthodoxy in Indonesia"

A Conversation with Archimandrite Daniel (Byantoro)

Archimandrite Daniel Byantoro

Fr. Daniel is the first Indonesian convert to Orthodoxy and the founder and heart of the struggling Orthodox Church there.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

My Journey into The Ancient Church

Jeremiah McKemy is an American convert to Orthodoxy from non-denominational churches, who has begun a blog to share with others his own journey. Here is his story.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

"Everything that Neo-Pagans said about Christianity was A lie"

Interview with former neo-pagan Ivan Liskov

Priest George Maximov

Contrary to fabricated pagan gods that you can make to be anything but don’t really need, in your relationship with the real God you feel His response, He helps you.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Is Hell Real?

Fr. Stephen Freeman

On one of the roads leading into my small city a billboard has recently appeared. It is part of a larger campaign by a nationally known evangelist who is to have a revival in Knoxville. The sign is simple. In very large bright yellow letters (all caps), the sign says: HELL IS REAL. In small letters beneath it, in white, that can be read as your car nears the sign is the statement: so is heaven.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“I Wore the cross and felt that I couldn’t live without it”

Interview with former Krishnaite Andrei Kolobov

Priest George Maximov, Andrei Kolobov

Today we present to our readers an English translation of Father George’s interview with former Krishnaite Andrei Kolobov.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Kurdish People and Christianity

Hoshavi Muhammad, Monk Madai

As concerns Yezidism, we should begin by saying that Christianity is the one religion which reveals the light to mankind, which opens the Heavens to him, while paganism exists only here, on earth. In paganism all the attention is directed to external things submerged in the earth’s elements. Paganism lacks the Heaven that Christianity teaches us about.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Greatest Gift in the World

Orthodox Korean Ksenia Kim Talks About Her Path To The Church

Priest George Maximov

I was born in a regular Korean family. Koreans have a difficult spiritual legacy—It is a mixture of Buddhism and shamanism. So if I followed in the footsteps of my ancestors, I would have probably gone in the same direction. However, God gives the right of choice to every person and after comparison and analysis we can make the best decision. My journey wasn’t easy.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“Jehovah’s Witnesses Do Not Need a Search for the Truth”

Interview with Artem Grigoryan, a former long-standing member of Jehovah's Witnesses

Priest George Maximov, Artem Grigoryan

In association with the Russian SPAS (Savior) TV channel, Pravoslavie.Ru has begun publishing a series of remarkable stories about our contemporaries who embraced the true faith after following various false teachings.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

If Jesus is God, Let my daughter be alive! Notes about Indonesian Orthodoxy

Priest George Maximov

What is the Crown Princess of Bali doing in an Orthodox church, why do Russians prefer to confess to Indonesians, and why Orthodoxy is a blessing for Indonesia—these and other themes are discussed in the Indonesian notes of Fr. George Maximov.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Orthodox church taking it one step at a time for a permanent home

Next year. Or by Christmas. Or by Easter, churchgoers say. That’s when they’ll be able to move into their church.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Grisha the Terrorist, Saad, and “Polar Bear”. Conversion in juvenile detention

Deacon Peter Pakhomov, Tatiana Boriskina

There were many leaders of radical teenage gangs—they are the ones who would eventually attend every class. They could not understand what was happening to them; I had to call them for individual discussions, to explain, and there were often disputes in the groups on this subject. Later many were baptized and escaped from their former demonic state.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

An Interview With Fr. John Musther of Cumbria

“Christ Won the Battle and Made my Heart Orthodox!”

Dmitry Lapa

Father John Musther, an Orthodox Englishman, serves in the Orthodox missionary parish of Sts. Bega, Mungo and Herbert in Keswick, Cumbria, North West England. His community, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, is part of the ancient tradition of the Orthodox Church. The congregation is a living witness of the truth of Holy Orthodoxy to the people living nearby.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

How St. Xenia helped a Muslim Woman Become an Iconographer

Olga Lunkova

I was born to a Muslim family. Both of my grandmothers were believers and prayed the namaz. My father’s mother was particularly pious—she prayed several times a day according to the Muslim custom, and she taught me the Muslim prayers.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Jackson’s Orthodox Church built on ‘zeal and eagerness’

Snowden said the Orthodox Church seems very different to most Americans, but that is not a bad thing. He said the church does things differently than Protestants, and they do not look down on newcomers if they are uncomfortable.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Living God’s Word

Fr. Silouan Benedict

The Word of God acts gently within your soul. God transforms us through his word, so it is very necessary to allow the Word of God to sink into you. And the right interpretation of the Word of God has to sink within you, not the word of God spoken by heretics and schismatics. The Orthodox Church helps you to know the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

“The Indian mission will be the most fruitful mission in the world!"

Clement Nehamaiyah

When we decided to embark upon the Ark of Salvation—the Holy Church—many times we were told by our Anglican friends that we were making a mistake, but by the mercy of God we were happy and willing to make this mistake.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Seminary Marks 5th Year at Young Preachers Festival

Sponsored by the Academy of Preachers, the National Festival attracted more than one hundred young preachers along with their mentors and evaluators.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Gabriel, an atheist Philosophy Student at Mount Athos

“What would you choose? Someone who is educated but can make your mind dizzy or someone that can wake you and who is a saint ?” “I'd like someone educated because I fear Saints”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Great Miracle that is hard to understand

“In other words doctor, speak to us frankly.” “I have determined that Olga will not make it. She is slowly dying.” “What do you mean, she is slowly dying doctor.” I dared to ask? “I mean as we are talking, in a few hours, maybe during the course of the night she will die. I believe, without any doubt, she will not live through the night. Theoretically I can give you a time that she might make it to tomorrow.” “In other words, doctor, only a miracle can save her,” says the mother. “Yes, only a miracle,” repeats the doctor. The father continues to cry with controlled sobs.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“The Sacrament takes place for people with any name.”

Fr. Dimitry Smirnov

Something that Orthodox people from various countries often experience when visiting Russia is a problem stemming from their own name. A Serb named Milorad, a Bulgarian named Lilia, or an American named Donald might piously approach the holy chalice to receive Communion, but when they pronounce their names, heads turn and stare in suspicion. Who is this person’s patron saint?

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“This one—on standby!”

A story for volume two of Everday Saints

Ivan Rogov

In the zone being fired upon by the Chechen fighters there remained three on the ground—two rescuers and one special forces agent. Death seemed inescapable, but when an enemy hand grenade fell at their feet and didn’t detonate, they understood it as a sign from on high that their time had not yet come.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Patient Endurance ts The Fruit of Virtue, and it is Nourished By Prayer

Anastasia Rakhlina, Metropolitan Athanasios of Limasol

When I saw him praying in church, then I thought: if there is some person who holds the helm of the whole world, it isn’t the president of America, it isn’t a communist, it isn’t any person of this world—it’s Elder Paisios. He is able to steer the rudder of the whole world.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Christmas is more than a day in Orthodox church

A group of Hillsboro residents practicing centuries-old traditions of Orthodox Christianity does not need reminders that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” Observances of Christ’s birth started for them in mid-November, and will continue for many days after Dec. 25.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

No bones about it: Faith endures

Fr. Barnabas Powell

This respect for the body, as icon of its Creator, carried into Christianity — the faith of those who accepted Jesus as Messiah.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

В других разделах