![]() Sunny was attending the local Greek Orthodox Church and in addition to the unfamiliarity of the various movements and rituals of a liturgical service was added the complication that about 50% of it was in Greek. I agreed to try it out mostly because I didn’t want church attendance to complicate our relationship. I fell in love with Sunny very quickly, and since I was not obligated elsewhere she invited me to come and worship with her. About the time I stepped down from the last position I ever held in a protestant church and wondered what was next, I began courting a girl named Sunny who was a catechumen in the Orthodox Church. However, as time went on my questions became more persistent and diminished my desire to continue participating. I served in Churches as a musician and worship/youth leader. Despite my questions and misgivings, I remained active in protestant churches throughout most of my college years and into early adulthood. As I grew older however, I began to wonder: Why did we worship the way we worshipped? What connected us to previous generations of Christians? To whom were we accountable to for what we taught and practiced, and why? These and other questions rattled around in my head, but, this being the era before Wikipedia made research so easy, they remained largely unanswered for a long time. It is from these people, their example, the old hymns and revival tunes we sang, and the Bible stories I memorized that I inherited the seeds of Christian life. As a child church was a family affair my paternal grandfather was the pastor, my father led the singing, my mother played the piano, and my maternal grandparents taught Sunday school. I grew up a generic evangelical protestant, raised by faithful parents and grandparents. John Mikita’s last day will be August 8th.īelow is a brief bio in Fr John’s own words: John Cox will be the new rector of Holy Ascension. He and his wife, Matushka Photini, have four children, three boys and a girl. He is also the managing editor of the digital journal, Rule of Faith. ![]() John Cox is from Knoxville, TN and was previously the rector of Holy Dormition Orthodox Church in Norfolk, Virginia. ![]()
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