Hi. Long time no post. Over the weekend, I read an exchange between a Lutheran and an Orthodox on a messageboard. The conversation was about 6 years old. The...
Hi, I'm new here. I'm currently serving as a Lutheran Pastor in Lutheran Church-Canada (fellowship with LCMS). I have been looking East now for around 3 years...
Hello everyone, I have been on this list for a while, and would like to finally say Hi and ask for some prayers. I am a former Lutheran who is being ...
This is a question I have about Anthropology in the mind of the Church. The Lutheran perspective of every human being born since Adam is that we have ancestral...
Some random thoughts I put together once for an Episcopalian friend of mine. A little scattered and with perhaps a bit too much of an attitude, but it at...
I have been studying this topic for quite some time and I am looking for an Orthodox perspective on it. In Lutheran Church-Canada, the practice of infant...
It hit me the other day that the following passage is an example of prayer to a saint (and a living saint, not one who has shuffled off this mortal coil) in...
Here is a book by/about Fr. Clement Sederholm, the son of a Lutheran pastor, convert to Orthodoxy and cell attendant to one of the sainted Elders of Optina in...
Peace! I wanted to share with everyone on the list our glad news. My husband, myself, and our children have become catechumens in the Orthodox Church. ...
By Benjamin L. Harju<http://paredwka.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-heaven-and-new-earth.html> I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me. The above...
* http://orrologion.blogspot.com/2006/02/on-those-who-think-they-are-made.html From *The Philokalia: The Complete Text, vol. I. *Trans. and eds. G.E.H. Palmer,...
I know this subject has been discussed a lot on here, but I'm not quite finding the reassurance my heart desires. I've been reading up on Orthodox teachings...
I didn't know how to better title the subject line, so I ask for your understanding, in advance. I have sort of a multifacited question about what is...
If there are no Divine, Uncreated Energies, then God is pure Essence. "Essence" means His Being, means whatever mystery there is without which, God wouldn't...
Fr. Gregory Hogg, on his Pillar and Ground of the Truth<http://frgregory.blogspot.com/2009/03/that-prayer-again.html>blog, called my attention to a post that...
Perhaps an Orthodox participant could summarize in a few words what exactly is the understanding of the Gospel and the means of salvation, according to the OC....
Ok, here's a question. What do Orthodox mean, exactly, by the term "Divine Energies"? What are they? Where is this taught / explained -- in Scripture (this...
Since we have some newer members and more volume lately, I thought I would remind everyone to take a look at the description of this list again. It can be...
Once a Lutheran pastor, now an Orthodox priest<http://conversiaddominum.blogspot.com/2009/03/once-lutheran-pastor-now-orthodox.html> *from Conversi ad ...
In the Greek parish here, an errant priest years ago was dealt with by very unhappy delegations from our parish who went all the way to Constantinople. The...
I was wondering at what point in the history of the ancient Church, the practice of veneration of the Saints/asking for intercession from them came into being....
As Lutherans, we are taught clearly about some of the causes of the Reformation of the Roman Church, due to heresy and abuse of scriptural truths, as practiced...
Yes, that short but outstanding series by Fr. Gregory deserves our attention for sure. We believe the destiny of Christians is to be "conformed to the image of...
Howdy! I just ran across a very thought provolking question and I thought that I would post it here in hope of an Orthodox response. "Does requesting the...
My original request for some assistance regarding a good "starter" book on the writings of the Church Fathers somehow got buried in another thread, so I'll...
