Orthodoxy and Western Christianity: Convert Testimonies

Holy Tradition: The Road That Leads Home, by the Rev. Dorraine Snogren (The True Vine, #5).

, by John Craton. From his testimony: “Please note that this revision is intended primarily for readers who are themselves part of the Campbell-Stone restoration movement (identifying with the Church of Christ, Christian Church, or Disciples of Christ). Others from similar fundamentalist-type churches may also find much to identify with in this work.”

On Becoming and Remaining an Orthodox Christian. A Talk given at the Orthodox Pilgrimage to Felixstowe in August 2001.

Contours of Conversion and the Ecumenical Movement: Some Personal Reflections, by Hieromonk Alexios Karakallinos. A talk delivered at the September, 2004 conference “Ecumenism: Origins, Expectations, Disenchantment”, sponsored by the School of Pastoral Theology, The Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Are There Many Christian Churches, or Is the True Church One?: An Interview with a Former Protestant Missionary and Wycliffe Bible Translator.

From First Baptist to the First Century: A Spiritual Journey, by Clark Carlton

Chapter One from A Tiny Step Away from Deepest Faith, by Marjorie Corbman. The author, a teenager, is a very thoughtful writer with a capability beyond her years. This profound little book describes her search for meaning, which ended with her reception into the Orthodox Church.

Joel Kalvesmaki’s Journey to Orthodoxy, A Baptist Missionary Becomes Orthodox

Fr. Seraphim Holland’s Personal Testimony

Fr. George Johnson’s Personal Testimony: a former Anglican

American Salvation: The Place of Christianity in Public Life, by Albert J. Raboteau. From Boston Review (April/May 2005). “I was drawn in part by a sense of profound similarity between Orthodoxy and the ethos of African-American Christianity. In both there is a quality of sad joyfulness, a sense that life in a minor key is life as it is; an emphasis on the importance of suffering as a mark of the authenticity of faith.” See also Professor Raboteau’s book A Sorrowful Joy.

Two Paths, One family’s departure from Roman Catholicism and entrance into Orthodoxy. Excerpt from the book by Michael Whelton

Seek and ye shall find... A couple’s journey to Orthodoxy, by Reader Peter Jackson.

Journey to Orthodoxy, a collection of articles from Orthodox America.

Why Isn’t Clendenin Orthodox?, a two-part series from Orthodox America about a Protestant who has written many largely sympathetic books and articles about Orthodoxy, but remains Protestant. See also “A Reply to Dan Clendenin.”

Reconsidering the Meaning of Conversion: Fr. John Whiteford responds to a recent Christianity Today essay by Sam Torode.

Converts - Chapter 88 from Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works, by Hieromonk Damascene.