What do I believe?

Seems like a whole bunch of things I want to write about; the trouble is making the time.

One of the driving factors in pushing me away from the Baptists was that they taught their own, incorrect, versions of Catholic teaching. The lesson I learned is that if you want to know what a faith teaches, get your information straight from the horse's mouth, not from middlemen. Jack Chick's "Alberto" for me became a watershed in condemnation of bogus teachings. This means that if you want to know what Baptists teach, ask Baptists. If you want to know what Catholics teach, ask a Catholic source. And if you want to know what us whacky Orthodox Christians believe, ask a genuine Orthodox source. The worst thing you can do is think you know what they teach (because a source from your own faith told-you-so), and then find out that you were wrong.

I think the really surprising thing is discovering how much Orthodoxy has in common with mainline Protestant faiths. The Nicene Creed is a good place to start.

For a complete rundown of what exactly Orthodoxy teaches and why, where you can pick and choose what you're curious about, here's an official source:

Or you can just click the title of this post, above.

And once again, for an interesting radio experience, click on "Ancient Faith Radio" to the right. You can choose between discussions of a WIDE variety of topics on the "Talk" stream, or listen to music that Christians listened to 1,000 years ago on the "Music" stream (a fair amount is in English, though).