Author: Anjali

Anjali was born and raised Hindu, and was an active Bahá’í for five years before finding Christ and being baptized into the Orthodox Church.

Believing Thomas: How I Left the Bahá’í Faith

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This post, by author Anjali Sivan, a convert to Orthodox Christianity, was originally featured on her personal weblog on the occasion of St. Thomas Sunday. In honor of St. Thomas Sunday, I would like to share my own special appreciation for him. There is the fact that he was the apostle who brought the Gospel to India. But even more than that,…

From Hinduism to Orthodoxy: “But what can a virgin know of the sorrows and travail of mankind?”

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This post, by author Anjali Sivan, a convert to Orthodox Christianity from Hinduism, was originally featured on her personal weblog. The original is here. The quote in the title is from a book I loved as a teenager, The Mists of Avalon [by Marion Zimmer Bradley -ed.]. In it, Morgaine (the legendary Morgan Le Fay) states: I have no quarrel with the…