Unbelievable? What's got evangelicals interested in the Orthodox Church?

Unbelievable?

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🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Several high profile evangelical have converted to The Orthodox Church in recent decades. Is it just for the cool beards and robes? In this discussion we find out about the history of the Orthodox Church and some of its distinctive features. Justin is joined by Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church, evangelical theologian Elaine Storkey and Andrew Walker, a convert to Eastern Orthodox Church. MP3 of this show http://media.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/71067e8d-411f-4194-ac60-0d6b68d60dea.mp3 For Bishop Angaelos http://www.copticcentre.com For Elaine Storkey http://www.elainestorkey.com For Deep Church Rising: Recovering Christian Orthodoxy http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0281072728 For more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome along to Unbelievable. I'm Justin Briley, and for the next hour and a half or so we're going to be looking at faith from different perspectives as we do every week here on the program.
0:40.0	It's part of faith explored on Premier Christian Radio and whether you're listening
0:44.0	this Saturday afternoon or via the podcast via the website or however, you're very welcome along.
0:50.0	What are we going to be talking about on today's program?
0:52.0	Well, I'm joined by Christians of different kinds today
0:55.4	as we look at the Orthodox Church.
0:58.1	Now, to the average Protestant, the Orthodox Church
1:00.4	might mean long beards, robes, robes,
1:02.4	and celebrating Christmas and Easter at
1:04.2	funny times of the year. But there's more to it than that of course and we're going to
1:07.9	be hearing about the Orthodox Church and asking why are evangelicals getting
1:12.2	interested in it?
1:13.6	My guests are going to be Bishop and Galos,
1:15.8	Elaine Storke and Andrew Walker.
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