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Witness unto All Nations (Mt. 24:14)

The street mission of the Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Herman of Alaska

St. Herman of Alaska Missionary Brotherhood

Speaking with strangers in streets about the innermost things is a real challenge, a personal podvig which can only be performed by somebody who came to wholeheartedly believe in the Truth and strives to live according to Its will.

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VIDEO: Russian Priest Explains Why Westerners Are Converting To Orthodox Christianity

In this short video, well-known Russian priest Fr. Andrei Tkachev talks about the phenomenon of people converting to Orthodox Christianity throughout the world, here esecially focusing on America and Turkey. As Fr. Andrei explains, people are looking for the deeper undercurrent of their lives and cultures, and are finding it in the Christ's true Orthodox Church.

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The Dark Powers Don’t Let One Go So Easily

The monastery as a hospital to heal the illnesses of the 20th century. Part 1

Lolita Naranovich

All the names of the people I talked with have been changed. They agreed to tell me about their greatest secrets in the hope that these stories will help people understand that no matter how dark the night, there is always a path to the light.

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The Eternal God is Calling You to Himself

The text explains the problem of the human condition and the Orthodox theology of how Jesus Christ came to save fallen mankind, also offering an overview of the Ten Commandments and how to apply them in our lives.

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The Ouija Board Spelled, “Evil”

The story of Elena Smirnova, a former witch

Priest George Maximov, Elena Smirnova

Sometimes the journey to the Light takes people through years of serving dark forces. This is what happened to Elena Smirnova. She used to practice witchcraft and esoteric arts, and summon evil spirits.

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(VIDEO): Punks to Monks: Effects of the Last Rebellion

Fr. John Valadez

In this engaging video, Fr. John Valadez speaks of the soul-destroying pitfalls of the punk culture he once found himself wrapped up in, and how the zine Death to the World, founed by former punks turned monks, helped him and many others to find the light of Christ in the Orthodox Church.

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“I Read a Ton of Anti-Christian Books and… Understood the Truth of Orthodoxy.”

Interview with Alexander Lyulka, former atheist (includes VIDEO)

Priest George Maximov, Alexander Lyulka

Alexander read many atheistic and anti-Christian books trying to convince himself that Christianity was unviable, but discovered the depth and intellectual power of Orthodoxy instead. He will tell us how his intellectual quest led him to faith.

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The Long Way Home

Marina Alexeyeva

He awoke at the grinding sound of the door opening. The guards had come. Releasing Tolya from the handcuffs, they led him upstairs. “Well, this is it,” he thought, “now they are going to kill me and my wasted life is going to end.” They took him outside. Anatoly winced, thinking it’s the end.

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“Can I Become a Priest’s Wife?”

Anna Romashko

This desire should be formulated this way: “I would like to become a priest’s wife. But may Thy will be done, O Lord!

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The Anarchist With the Green Mohawk

A story of one soul’s healing on the Holy Mountain

his happened in the monastery of Vatopedi, when Elder Joseph “the Younger” still lived there. It was late November. I was then fulfilling the obedience of guest master. In those days, there were conflicts arising in the Polytechnic University in Athens between students and police.

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Converts and Culture

Fr. John Whiteford

How can someone best assimilate into the “culture” of Orthodoxy, even picking up other national customs, without losing their own nationality (being from the USA for example)? How do we find that middle balance of taking the good and leaving the bad from our own culture?

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Why I Love My Parishioners

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

No, he has never studied theology, he has never heard of any modern ‘theologians’ (though he does know something of the Lives of the Saints), he cannot tell you about the history and structure of the services, has never met a bishop, does not know the Bible backwards, will not give you lots of pious talk about prayer and fasting, has never heard of ‘the Council of Crete’ and knows nothing about Catholicism and Protestantism.

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Conversions gradually transforming Orthodox Christianity

Jonathan M. Pitts

Growing up a Southern Baptist in eastern Tennessee, Brent Gilbert says, he never realized there were other ways to worship.

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Orthodoxy is the Absolute Truth

Interview with Abdias Bijanov, an Orthodox Assyrian

Priest George Maximov

The guest of today’s program is Abdias Bijanov, an Orthodox Assyrian. His search for the meaning of life initially led him to the Nestorian Assyrian Church of the East, but eventually he found the Truth in Orthodoxy.

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Who’s Magdalena?

Olga Rozhneva

Suddenly she heard the ringing voice of her daughter: “Don’t you dare! Don’t you dare to talk like that in my presence! I forbid you! Mary Magdalene was a Myrrh Bearer, a disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ! That’s who she is!”

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

An Appeal to Traditional Roman Catholics From an Orthodox Catholic Priest

Fr. Victor E. Novak

Objective facts seem to mean less and less to more and more people, even professed Christians, and decisions are becoming more often made on the basis “appeals to emotion and personal belief” than on “objective facts.”

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“Every Human Life is a Gift From God”. The Long Journey of a Swiss Catholic To Orthodoxy

Aviv Saliu-Diallo, Pierre Haab

Pierre Haab, a Swiss ex-Catholic who was disappointed with his religion and was carried away by Buddhism, Hinduism and other screamingly “fashionable” Eastern teachings and who is now a subdeacon of the Orthodox Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross in Geneva, speaks about his conversion to Orthodoxy.

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Talking Beliefs and Finding Renewed Faith

Fr. Barnabas Powell

When I raised my glass, she raised hers and said, "Cheers!" I'd never toasted with a stranger on a plane, but as I sipped my pilsner, we chatted. Then came a sudden twist: "If you don't mind me asking, are you a pastor?"

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“Russia is a Sacred Country For Me”

Interview with James Evans, an Orthodox Briton

Priest George Maximov, James Evans

The guest of today’s program is James Evans, an Orthodox Englishman. He will tell us why he prefers to live in Russia rather than in England, what he gets from singing in the Orthodox church and how his journey to Orthodoxy began.

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The Man From Antigua Who Founded the “African Orthodox Church”

Priest George Maximov

Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. Amongst its sons, George MacGuire, the founder of the “African Orthodox Church” occupies a worthy place. By the time he died the Church numbered about 30,000 faithful, fifty clergy, and dozens of parishes in the U.S.A, Uganda, Kenya, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, and Antigua. Who was this man, and why did he turn his spiritual search toward Orthodoxy?

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Utah Mormons, Protestants finding new spiritual home in ancient Orthodox church

Bob Mims

Utah Mormons and Protestants are rediscovering a reverence for God by converting to Orthodoxy.

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