A family walking eastward.

We are the Gomez family — Chris, Wendy, and our sons Donoven and Grayson. We were raised Protestant, spent years deep in Evangelical and Reformed circles, and eventually, after a long season of reading the Church Fathers, visiting an Orthodox parish, and slowly losing every reason we had not to be Orthodox, we were received into the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Our parish

We worship at St. Andrew Orthodox Church under the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. The faith of the Apostles, carried forward unbroken by the Church of Antioch — the same Church where, as Acts 11:26 tells us, the disciples were first called Christians — is the same faith we now confess every Sunday.

What this site is

This site is a decade of writing. Some of it is old theology I wrote as a Protestant student — genuine attempts to understand Scripture, the atonement, the Trinity, and Christian ethics. I've kept those essays here for continuity and honesty, but many are now being revisited through the mind of the Church. Where a piece needs rewriting, I say so.

Some of it is new: introductions to Orthodoxy for curious friends, reflections on the liturgical year, guides to the sacramental life. Some of it is family — trips, food, photos, the ordinary goodness that all the theology is ultimately for.

Why write any of this at all?

Because we made this walk largely in private, and we found that the English-language resources online were either dry enough to put a catechumen to sleep or polemic enough to make a seeker run the other way. We wanted a site that sounded like real people writing to their friends. So this is that.

Get in touch

If you're a seeker, a Protestant friend with questions, or just someone who wandered onto the site — we would love to hear from you. Reach out here.