Notes from a family walking eastward into the ancient Christian faith.
Essays, scripture studies, and everyday life — rebuilt around Eastern Orthodoxy, with the whole back catalog still here and being carefully re-examined through the mind of the Church.
The ancient Church, still here
An introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church — her worship, her saints, her unbroken line to the Apostles.
Begin the tour → TheologyDoctrine, revised and revisited
Atonement, soteriology, the sacraments — the Protestant essays I wrote years ago, now in conversation with the Fathers.
Read the series → ReligionsComparing world religions
Honest, charitable deep-dives into Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism.
Explore the maps →We left Protestantism for the Church of the Apostles.
The questions that pulled us east weren't exotic. They were simple: who has authority to interpret Scripture? What is the Eucharist? What did the first Christians actually believe? The answers kept leading us somewhere we didn't expect.
Read the journey →- 01 The Church
One, holy, catholic, apostolic - 02 The Mysteries
Baptism, Eucharist, Confession - 03 The Saints
The cloud of witnesses - 04 The Liturgy
Worship unchanged in substance - 05 The Fathers
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Eternal Life Found in 1 John
Have you ever wondered about eternal life? How can one be sure that they have this eternal life that John proclaims so confidently in his ep
Lessons to Learn from Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch
Both of these apostolic fathers have much to teach us today, even thousands of years later. When I read Clement’s letter to the Corinthians,
The Muratorian Fragment
The Muratorian fragment is a remarkable find to the Christian faith. Most Christians look to Athanasius (367 CE) or the councils in North Af
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