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  1. Pavel Mosko

    Legacy of Ben Lomond Crisis

    I was curious about what lasting legacy the Ben Lomond Crisis has had. I have some personal interest in that because that church was in my parents backyard so to speak. It was the first Orthodox (or Eastern Church of any kind) that I ever attended. I actually thought seriously about...
  2. dzheremi

    Ruben van der Kaap: From Dutch Reformed to Syriac Orthodox seminarian

    A wonderful recent story that I missed because I don't know Dutch. Translated by Google (I still don't know Dutch) from the Dutch-language website www.nieuwwij.nl, here is an interview about the young man's path, conducted by Femke van Loo. The twenty (year old) Ruben van der Kaap traded in...
  3. dzheremi

    A brief testament to the Orthodox faith by Fr. Moses Curley

    Fr. Moses Curley is a Coptic Orthodox hegoumen who came into the Coptic Orthodox Church after some time in the Serbian Orthodox Church, and before that in the Anglican church. In the following video he shares a little bit of what makes the Orthodox Church and its faith so amazing and beautiful...