Personal Experience

God Has A Plan

God Has A Plan

24 January 2012

Caroline Potter

I am no longer a child who attends Sunday School. The lessons, nonetheless, remain just as necessary. Yes God does have a plan for each and everyone of us. Yes we need to have faith in God. I wish ...

Appearances Often Hide Internal Pain

Appearances Often Hide Internal Pain

15 December 2011

Priest Barnabas Powell

You've no idea how hard it is to get into jail. I felt like a ball being batted around by an army of penal bureaucrats before finally finding the gatekeeper. My heart pounded as I waited across ...

A Russian Tanya from Guinea-Bissau

A Russian Tanya from Guinea-Bissau

07 December 2011

Archpriest Dimitriy Smirnov

At first I was afraid of the Church, though my father was Christian. I liked icons, Christian pictures, but I could never enter any church. Whenever I heard a church choir even far away – I would ...

Born to Lead

Born to Lead

19 October 2011

Klaus Kenneth is also God’s gift to churches – especially the Orthodox Church, which is where he turned after decades of spiritual wandering, a meeting with Father Sophrony of Essex (a man whom he ...

Fr. George Hackney’s Journey: “My sole wish is to continue to be an orthodox Christian”

Fr. George Hackney’s Journey: “My sole wish is to continue to be an orthodox Christian”

04 October 2011

Fr. George Hackney

It has not been an easy decision to leave the Church of England because I have served as a priest for the past 32 years, it has been the whole of my life and I knew that if I entered the Orthodox ...

Pray As You Can

Pray As You Can

25 September 2011

Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament?

Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament?

25 August 2011

Fr. James Bernstein

This hostility towards the churches fit in well with my Jewish background. I naturally distrusted all churches because I felt they had betrayed the teachings of Christ by having participated in or ...

Through Closed Doors

Through Closed Doors

11 August 2011

The next evening, everybody in the house left for a hockey game. Alone in the Big House living room, I stared out at the beauty of Alaska. Totally quiet, totally serene. But yet, the dope pangs would ...

The Conversion & Martyrdom of Ahmed the Muslim

The Conversion & Martyrdom of Ahmed the Muslim

28 July 2011

As he blessed, rays of light came from his finger tips, but though the rays fell on the heads of all the Orthodox, they did not fall on Ahmed’s head. This happened two or three times and each time ...

By Her Prayers…

By Her Prayers…

18 July 2011

Elisabeth Hawkins

After my surgery, Fr. Theophylact came and anointed me with oil from Saint Nectarlos. He left and suddenly, inexplicably, I was overcome by a profound feeling of repentance. I wept and wept. Then I ...

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