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White Horse Inn

Why Are Evangelicals Becoming Eastern Orthodox?

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Religion & Spirituality, History, Christianity

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

While Orthodox apologists are gaining traction online today, a similar wave of disillusionment with evangelicalism was already unfolding in American culture back in 1996. In this classic episode of White Horse Inn, Fr. Peter Gillquist, an evangelical convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, joins Michael Horton to explore the appeal of Orthodoxy among evangelicals.
 
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0:00.0

Here at Sola, we just launched our newest project, the Sola Newspaper, a quarterly print publication featuring articles on theology, the historic creeds and confessions, and reflections for the Christian life, delivered straight to your mailbox for free.

0:16.3

To celebrate, we're turning back to the archive and revisiting classic episodes of Whitehorse

0:21.7

in from the 90s, episodes on nationalism, and why some evangelicals are attracted to Catholicism

0:28.5

in Eastern Orthodoxy. It's easy to think that the movements evangelicals find attractive today

0:34.0

are new, driven by social media and the peculiar pressures of the present moment.

0:39.0

But listen to these conversations from 1991 and 1996, and you'll realize that many of the

0:45.4

topics Christians were wrestling with 30 years ago are being repeated today. We hope you

0:51.7

enjoy these classic episodes, and if you'd like the next issue of the Sola

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1:05.3

Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and

1:12.2

debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge

1:18.5

Inn called the White Horse, the Reformation came to the English-speaking world. Carrying on

1:24.5

the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.

1:31.3

Good evening, it's the White Horse Inn, and tonight we start a brand new series that we think

1:35.3

will be very informative.

1:37.3

Why are so many evangelicals going over to Eastern Orthodoxy or to Roman Catholicism?

1:43.3

This has become a question that a lot of us have

1:46.0

been asked lately. Perhaps you know people or perhaps you're one yourself, somebody who has either

1:51.4

gone over to one of these communions or is thinking about it. Well, tonight we start that series

1:56.4

considering why so many evangelicals are going over to Eastern Orthodoxy.

2:01.4

Our special guest to help us with that tonight is none other than Father Peter Gilquist.

2:07.0

Father Peter Gilquist has achieved all kinds of acclaim within Orthodox circles because he came not only by himself, but with about 2,000 evangelicals from organizations such as his own Campus Crusade for Christ,

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