Dear “John”, I understand that you are on the way to becoming Orthodox. I know nothing about you, beyond the fact that you are English. Before we go any further, there is one point I should make clear. I have not been told why you are about to convert, but I assure you there is no point whatsoever if it is for negative reasons. You will find as much “wrong” (if not more) in Orthodoxy as in... 

Tatyana Mendesh Korreiya shared her journey to Orthodoxy in an interview by Fr. Dimitriy Smirnov. “Maniaku” woman I became Russian Tanya at birth. My father named me so. Many people think that I took the name on my own because I liked how it sounds. But that’s not true. I grew up in a foster home in Ivanovo, Russia. I am a daughter of a politician. Some time ago children of politicians in Africa,... 

After an incredible, almost unbelievable life, one man tells THEO PANAYIDES how his search for love was finally successful Klaus Kenneth is God’s gift to newspapers. His life, as he tells it, has been so full of incident and adventure that the only problem for a journalist is how to fit it all in. He was a gang leader at 12, a terrorist at 22 and a junkie at 25. He’s been a Buddhist monk, a Hindu... 

In an English village Near to the geographical centre of England you can find Rolleston, the tiny village where I was born. My family were farmers, as their ancestors had been for generations. In the heart of the village and under the jurisdiction of the Church of England stood the ancient parish church of The Holy Trinity. For centuries it had been the centre of village life. There were no other... 

As a Jewish convert to Christ via evangelical Protestantism, I naturally wanted to know God better through the reading of the Scriptures. In fact, it had been through reading the Gospels in the “forbidden book” called the New Testament, at age sixteen, that I had come to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and our promised Messiah. In my early years as a Christian, much of my religious... 

(True life story by Thomas) In may of 1980, the singer /poet Ian Curtis of Joy Division hung himself in his Manchester, England home the day before he was to depart for their big U.S. tour. On the same day in Washington State, Mt. St. Helen’s erupted, and a young man prepared for high school graduation, and the turmoil that his life would soon become. The day after graduation, I left for San... 

Ahmed was born in the seventeenth century to a Muslim family in Constantinople. By profession he was a copyist in the Great Archives. In accordance with Ottoman law, since he did not have a wife, he had a slave instead, a Russian woman. Another captive from Russia lived together with her, an old woman, also a slave. Both these women were very pious. On feast days the old woman would go to church. Taking... 

Source: St.John the Baptist Orthodox Church         I want to share how Grand Duchess Elizabeth has helped me in guiding me to Orthodoxy and strengthening my faith.   As a divorced single mother, I was living with my eight-year-old son Timothy near Albany, New York. My older brother bad become a monk at Holy Trinity Monastery, in Jordanville, and came occasionally to... 

Conversation with father Arkadiy Shlykov, dean of the church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Kolodozero village, Karelia, Russia. Beginning In my boyhood and young days I showed no particular interest in the Church or faith. My parents did not go to church at the time. Only when I stayed with my grandparents (they lived in Pechory, not far from Pskovo-Pechersky monastery) once in... 

A week after Fr Zacharias Kerstyuk baptized a Muslim in Spain, three other Muslims who had survived the crippling of the ship decided to become Christians. Fr Zacharias now tells Pravmir how and why this came about. Fr. Zacharias Kerstyuk The last moments before the sacrament The men who have become Christians are all members of the crew on board the same ship which had been crippled. They are of...