The Orthodox convert list

  • It occurred to me since I men­tioned the Ortho-convert list again recently that I should give info and a plug for any­one who doesn’t know about it.

    It’s an e-mail list-serv — an e-mail forum dis­cus­sion group for the tech­no­log­i­cally chal­lenged (like me) — on Yahoo groups. You can reg­is­ter and join up if you want to receive the dis­cus­sions in your e-mail inbox, or just go and look in on it from time to time if you want to fol­low dis­cus­sions with­out the e-mail bag­gage (which I would under­stand — the list has had 362 new mes­sages in the last week, and even though it arrives to me in a digest form that puts whole con­ver­sa­tions in one e-mail, it’s still quite intimidating.)

    So now that we know what it is, what is it? Here’s the description:

    The Orthodox-Converts Mail­ing List is for dis­cus­sion between peo­ple who have con­verted to Ortho­dox Chris­tian­ity or are inter­ested in Ortho­doxy. Cra­dle Ortho­dox and Clergy are invited to join to offer advice to those mem­bers who are young in the faith.

    Young in the faith. Yep, that’s me. Only 20 or so years into this, and I learn things on that list all the time, espe­cially how to ver­bal­ize dif­fi­cult Ortho­dox con­cepts for our mod­ern Amer­i­can minds. There are often things that I think I have a han­dle on but can’t explain to non-Orthodox friends. There are at least as many things that I just plain didn’t know. I think the assort­ment of peo­ple com­ment­ing is excel­lent, but it is still a forum group, so you have to expect some crank­i­ness some­times. On the whole, very worthwhile.

    You can find it H E R E.


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    June 23rd, 2005 | Grace | 2 Comments |

2 Responses and Counting...

  • steven paul 06.23.2005

    Thanks for the plug! The list owner and I started the group over cof­fee at Denny’s one night in Phoenix. We’ve worked hard at mak­ing it rel­a­tively safe and free of flame. Its the best on the net, IMHO.
    s-p, co-moderator

  • Grace

    Def­i­nitely the best! Well, my opin­ion doesn’t mean much, since I haven’t tried out any of the other Ortho­dox lists. But it seemed to me that if I wasn’t inter­ested in *argu­ing* about Ortho­doxy, but in try­ing to learn it and learn how other peo­ple are liv­ing it out, I could elim­i­nate most of the other ones out there.

    But I’ll be the first to say that I haven’t shopped much. If some­one knows of another one that’s light on argu­ment, drop me a line.

    Grace

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