The news that a former FIEC-affiliated church has now become Eastern Orthodox (click here to read the article) is an interesting development.
It is a not untrodden path. One of the most influential Orthodox figures in the UK of the last century, the late Kallistos Ware, grew up in an evangelical home; and some while ago, Peter Gillquist, a former leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, led a whole group over to Orthodoxy in the USA.
Earlier this year, the Telegraph reported that “young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church [in the USA] after discovering the ‘masculine’ Christian religion through online influencers.”
