The New Faithful

The title of Colleen Carroll’s book  The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy uses the term ‘orthodoxy’ to refer to conservative forms of Christianity in general, but here are two beautiful passages that resonate with those journeying to Orthodoxy. 

“Holy Monday in Cambridge”

As the last rays of sunlight streamed through the church’s stained-glass windows, crystal chandeliers and flickering candles compensated for the waning daylight. A crop of about forty young adults filed into the nave, each carrying one delicate white candle and a prayer book. Their faces illuminated by the tiny flames, the crowd faced the iconostasis, the tall screen decorated with doors and tiers of icons that separates the sanctuary from the main part of an Eastern Orthodox church … continue reading

“Obedience and Sacrifice”

 For the members of the Carpenter’s Company in San Dimas, California — a church affiliated with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, a fast-growing Pentecostal charismatic denomination founded in the 1920s — following the Lord led them beyond orthodox preaching into the heart of Eastern Orthodoxy … continue reading.

 
A Journey to the Ancient Church
(24 minute documentary)

The journey of several Campus Crusade for Christ leaders and the congregations they formed to the Orthodox Church has been previously chronicled in the book Becoming Orthodox by Fr. Peter Guilquist.  A Journey to the Ancient Church  is a short documentary celebrating that journey as it was experienced by the group that became St. John Orthodox Church in Memphis, TN.   View here.

 

 

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