Welcome to Overtly Orthodox. Today we hear from a gentleman named Gary Greenfield. Gary "transitioned" from a Protestant sect of Christianity to the Orthodox Church rather late in life. (I think transition is a better use of words than conversion, but I digress.) So you understand the context of what you'll hear, when I recorded this, I was brand n…

I am really pleased to bring back to the program, Frederica Matthewes-Green. Frederica is an Orthodox Christian scholar, and just a very sweet spirit, extremely generous with her time. Frederica is the author of Two Views of the Cross: Orthodoxy and the West. And when I wrote her asking if she might know someone who knows someone about the Greek wo…

This episode is the first of two interviews that I have done with Frederica Matthewes-Green. Frederica has a number of resources available that have been very helpful for me in my inquiry into, and eventual baptism into the Orthodox Church. In fact, Frederica's book, Two Views of the Cross was very influential in my own introduction to the Orthodox…

Host James D. Newcomb shares his personal background in American churchianity, his introduction to and reception into the Orthodox Church, how this podcast concept and title came about, and what to expect from it in its early days and beyond! If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe to the podcast. And by all means leave a review on your pod…