The following is part of the personal testimony of a young woman who converted to Christianity from Hinduism. It is a very interesting piece, which you can read the rest of here.
At the Orthodox church, it wasn't like a memorial service for someone who had passed on to the next world, it was worship...truly believing that God was present, singing to God, not about him, not singing to ourselves, not singing for fellowship, not worshiping his idea, but actually presenting worship as a sacrifice within the presence of God. - and not being casual in his presence, but having a sense of holiness and respect - not because people wanted to be goody-two-shoes, but because if you actually believe that God is present, you'll be alert, rather than coming up with excuses about how God shouldn't care about this or that or the other, but naturally wanting to do your best in the presence of God out of love and respect and acknowledgment of his holiness.
See the baptism video here. And go here for a great follow-up to the above article.
An Early English Life of St Herman of Alaska
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The article that follows is, as far as I know, the first English-language
life of St Herman of Alaska. It originally appeared under the title “Herman
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Thanks for the links to Anjali's blog posts. They were really interesting ... I even sent a comment to her. I was fascinated reading about someone from such 'non-mainstream' religions. I had read about Baha'ism several years and thought it odd, (and I frankly don't remember a think I read). But I know nothing, really, about Hinduism except they have LOTS of gods with many odd character traits (jillion arms, trunks for noses, etc). Anyway, thanks.
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