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The first daily podcast was The Path with Fr. Thomas Soroka, added in 2007. In 2009, Ancient Faith Radio received 135,000 iPod downloads a month. [2] [3] Station manager Bobby Maddex conducted a survey of the station's listeners in 2011 and found that converts to Orthodox Christianity outnumbered those raised in the Orthodox Church nearly three ...
Ancient Faith Radio began in 2004 in the home of John Maddex, a former division manager of Moody Institute's 35 radio stations, who was attending All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago. Its initial form was Internet streaming of Orthodox liturgical music, with podcasts being added in 2005 with recordings of homilies from Fr. Patrick ...
The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...
The Convergence Movement, also known as the Ancient-Future Faith, [1] whose foundation is primarily attributed to Robert E. Webber in 1985, [2] is an ecumenical movement.
Unmarried priests usually are monks and live in monasteries, though when there is of a shortage of married priests, a monk-priest may be assigned to a parish. [ citation needed ] A deacon or priest would have to abandon his orders, i.e. be liaised, to marry after ordination; it is common for widowed clergy to enter a monastery.
The Catholic Church views Tradition in much the same terms, as a passing down of that same apostolic faith, but, in a critical difference from the Eastern Orthodox position, Catholicism holds that the faith once delivered, the understanding of it continues to deepen and mature over time through the action of the Holy Spirit in the history of ...
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
A movement away from presuming the correctness or dominance of the orthodoxy is seen as understandable, in light of modern approaches. However, some feel that instead of an even and neutral approach to historical analysis that the heterodox sects are given an assumption of superiority over the orthodox (or proto-orthodox) movement. The current ...