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[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“The Light of Christ Will Also Shine Over Kurdistan…”

An interview with Seraphim Maamdi, an Orthodox Kurd

Deacon Giorgi Maximov

I was a Yazid. As all Yazidi, I went as a child with my relatives to the Orthodox church; we had icons at home, before which we placed candles on Sundays and feast days—that is, it was considered normal to worship the sun and go to church at the same time. But I was very drawn to Christ. When I heard about Him on television, or when someone would tell me about Him, I would always listen with great curiosity. In 2002, my family and I moved to Moscow. Here, someone gave me a copy of the New Testament. That is where it all began…

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Football's Polamalu went on 'quest to find the truth'

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu said his quest for religious guidance was an attempt to find true meaning in his life.

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Let's Create A Perfect World

A world without suffering is literally unimaginable. Try it

Frederica Mathewes-Green

So you think that the existence of suffering proves that there is no God. But can I ask a question? How would you eliminate suffering? What would a world without suffering look like? You have free rein—make it any way you like.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Attraction of the Russian North

An interview with Tatiana Yushmanova

In the Russian north, there is an amazing union of past and present, modernity and history, man and nature. There is such a light and tender harmony of water, air, the sunrise-sunset skies of the white nights, and the stark power of uninhabited space and snowy winters. But the main thing about the north for a Russian is that it is the most Russian place...

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

Basil Sokolov: “In the Selfsame Hour…” Recollections of Life in the Camps

He was particularly able to win people’s hearts, and the patients always remembered him. He was ever serious, and at the same time amiable and affectionate, calm and satisfied with everything, always inwardly joyful. He attracted people, and they would become attached to him. Patients of all categories loved him—political and criminal, young and old.

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A Catholic Hermit Converted To Orthodoxy

An Interview with Hieromonk Gabriel Bunge

In short, in the West they really have not lost the taste for all authentic, Christian, that the Eastern tradition has preserved. But, alas, it changes nothing in real life of people and society on the whole. The interest in Orthodoxy is more cultural. And those wretched people like me who have a spiritual interest in Orthodoxy, are left in the minority. We are like weirdos; we are seldom understood.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Symbolism in the Star of Bethlehem

The Star of Bethlehem has been seen by many Christians as a miraculous symbol of the birth of Jesus, but there are also those who see it as an actual astronomical event—a nova, comet or a special conjunction that occurred at the time of the foretold birth. A conclusion about such an event has yet to be reached by most astronomers.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

For The Children’s Sake

It doesn’t take much for a parent to understand that children don’t hear very well. It may take me telling the children three times (very Orthodox ?) that their shoes belong in the shoe basket before they understand what to do with their footwear. For a child, going to a church where hearing is the only sense they can use in worship is flat out boring.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“I Feel a Hunger and Thirst in My Soul for God”

An interview with a Moslem who embraced Christianity

I was born a Moslem. I was orphaned in childhood, and grew up with my brothers. Their personalities were the opposite of mine. They liked to be with people while I was a solitary, introverted person. Although I did not know the Lord Christ, when I heard the word of God, shivers went up my spine. I sought Him very hard. Even as a child I wanted to know where the truth is, and I sought the truth, but did not know where to find it.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

A Strange Miracle of St. Nicholas in 1956

A true incident which shocked and brought repentance to hundreds of people in the Russian Soviet city of Kuibyshev (modern day Samara), in the year 1956.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Children in Church

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

Every Christian mother considers it one of her primary obligations to teach her child prayer as soon as his consciousness awakens — prayer that is simple and easy for him to understand. His soul must be accustomed to the warm and fervent experience of prayer at home, by his cradle, for his neighbors, his family. The child's evening prayer calms and softens his soul, he experiences the sweetness of prayer with his little heart and catches the first scent of sacred feelings.

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With God, All Things Are Possible

Fr. Martin Ritsi

We continued our conversation, and I discussed, in brief, the Faith and our Church and finally said that we had come to seek his permission to bring this religion to his village through Fr. Zachariah, who would return later. But not only did we want to bring this to the people in his village, we wanted him to consider becoming Christian. Immediately and without hesitation he replied, “Of course. I can feel that what you have is good. Yes, my answer is yes.”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

New guides to Suffering

Reading more Russian novels can help us reach that place called "An Examined Life."

Nora Fitzgerald

Russia's greatest contribution to the world over time is not oil or gas or arms. ”Rather it's been the successive generations of Russian writers capable of examining life's emotional and intellectual restlessness, its complexity and intensity.

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The Inspiring Story of Fr. Stephen Hatherley - English Orthodox Pioneer

Fr. Jonathan Hemmings

Father Stephen Georgeson Hatherley was such a man with a mission. He was an Englishman who converted to Orthodoxy in the late 19th century when it was difficult to do so. Such a move invited scorn and persecution from the prevailing intolerance of the establishment.

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Why Are We Orthodox?

Alexei Ilyich Osipov

If a person is already convinced that God exists, then an even more difficult problem arises. There are many religions, but which one of them is true? What should he become? Should he become a Christian, or why not a Moslem, or a Buddhist, or a hare Krishna?

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Why Few disillusioned Anglicans will join the Orthodox Church

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Currently the Church of England is racked by division concerning the ordination of homosexual clergy and female bishops. There are now Anglicans who have already left or who are planning to leave the Church of England because they cannot square such ‘modernisation’ with their consciences.

[English Edition / Church History]

Orthodox Christianity and the Old English Church

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

In an age where unity is so much sought after, it is thus our task to present to the reader some little part of the unity of that Christian Commonwealth, as it can be seen in the history of Anglo-Saxon England, most particularly at its beginning and at its ending. This we do with the wish that one day this former Commonwealth will be spiritually drawn together once more.

[English Edition / Church History]

Orthodoxy for Anglicans

In 1879, the Convocation of the Church of Russia determined that the Western Liturgy could be used by Orthodox people. In 1904, upon a submission made by Archbishop Tikhon (later Patriarch of Moscow, Martyred by the communists and canonised as Saint Tikhon) the Convocation set up a Commission to investigate the adaption of the services of the Book of Common Prayer for use by Orthodox people. In 1907 it received and approved the Commission report.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

From Becoming Orthodox to Being Orthodox: AGAIN Interviews Fr. Peter Gillquist

Secondly, I remember when we first discovered the Orthodox Church, before we were even in, and all six of my kids were at home, we’d go on family vacations—we’d drive, maybe on a two-lane highway, through several small towns, and then we’d get back on the freeway. We’d pull through a town and my kids would say, “Dad, there’s the Catholic church, there’s the Lutheran church, there’s the Methodist church, the Baptist, where on earth is the Orthodox church?” And I’d have to say, “Kids, we’re just starting out on the job of evangelizing here in America.”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Father Themi: The Missionary in Sierra Leone

Orthodox monk, Father Themi, speaks to DINA GEROLYMOU, about how he is progressing with his missionary work in Sierra Leone and his commitment to improving the basic living conditions of the people he ministers to.

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