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Welcome to SILOUAN, Phil's bit o' Web real estate. |
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It's been a few years since I resigned from pastoring the Vietnamese mission at Calvary Assembly of God, yet I find I'm still running into folks who wonder where I went, or why I left. I didn't leave Calvary because of any kind of conflict. I love the folks at Calvary, and wish I could have brought them all with me when I was received into the Orthodox Church. (...The what?) The Orthodox Church. I know - it was as much a surprise to me as to anybody when I found out where my studies of the early Church were leading me. Over the past few years, friends have repeatedly asked me - what on earth would make a nice Protestant guy join the Orthodox Church? Some have just wanted to know what Orthodoxy is, while others have asked me hard questions that have made me examine closely the conclusions I came to and choice I've made. And a surprising number of people, friends and strangers, have said they want to understand the path that has led me here. There isn't a quick and easy answer. This site is an attempt to provide an answer worth reading - and to give you a glimpse at what I've been thinking about recently. Some folks have asked me what it was I read among the early Christian writings that so impressed me - so along with quotes and "sound bites" from the early Christian Fathers, I will also be featuring complete texts from Christianity's first centuries, in modern translations, as I find them in the public domain - so you can read them in context. I'll also be continuing to post articles and links to stuff I find fascinating. If that sounds interesting at all, or if you're just curious what "Silouan" means, I invite you to poke around the site, enjoy, and email me if you feel like it. I'd love to hear from you! In Christ,
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