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.”
The cost of war
As these words are written in March, the situation in the Middle East is fast evolving and unpredictable. By the …