Did your own nationalities play a decisive role in your conversion to Christianity? Achmet: Ethnic origin has played a role in some cases, but not in ours. I myself was born in Cappadocia, and I have ...
Why is this so interesting, at least to me? Two reasons: 1) JMR is a convert to Orthodox Christianity. An Orthodox Christian is going to be one of the top figures at a Baptist university in Texas.
Conversion means that he now must frequently ... A religion course with a professor who was an Orthodox Christian inspired him to attend his first liturgy at age 21. He converted two years later.
In fact, the ruling is pretty small in scope: It says that non-Jews who already live in Israel, then convert under non-Orthodox auspices, are eligible for Israeli citizenship. In other words ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Israeli Chief Rabbinate has deemed invalid a conversion performed by Haskel Lookstein, one of America’s most prominent modern Orthodox rabbis. The decision to invalidate ...
Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought). "There's a long-running idea in mystical Russian theology that Russia is holding back ...