Jonathan Jackson

Jonathan Jackson: Only Christ-like humility and love for one’s enemies can fight actual ideologies

Ideologies which are in conflict with the teachings of our faith cannot be opposed by another ideology – not even one of Christian nature. It would just further division in society. Only Christ unites us. Ideologies can only be combated with Christ’s humility and love, says Jonathan Jackson, American actor and singer who has converted…

Jul 15, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Jonathan Jackson supports fundraising for the only Romanian Orthodox monastery in Ireland

Emmy Award-winning actor and musician Jonathan Jackson, an Orthodox convert, has recently moved to Ireland with the main purpose of supporting fundraising for the “Life-Giving Spring and St Chiarain” Monastery in Shannonbridge. The nuns need to pay the last instalment for the property until December 2020. “It was actually the central part of making the…

Sep 18, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

For actor Jonathan Jackson, embracing Orthodoxy was not just conversion, it was “coming home”

American actor Jonathan Jackson granted to TRINITAS, the Television of the Romanian Patriarchate, an interview about his conversion to Orthodoxy and how he lives faith. Asked to describe Orthodoxy in three words at most, the actor chose “coming home”. He added: “to a place we’ve always known. I don’t really look at this like I’m…

Sep 18, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Jonathan Jackson: My journey to Orthodoxy began with a paschal procession in Romania

In a new interview with the Romanian Orthodox magazine Lumea Credintei, the Emmy Award-winning actor and singer Jonathan Jackson spoke about his journey to Orthodoxy and his various artistic works dedicated to the glory of God, including the new award-winning documentary dedicated to St. Joseph the Hesychast. As Jackson revealed, his journey to Orthodoxy began on a…

Jul 28, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch of Alexandria briefed in Athens over film production ‘Man of God’

The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, was personally briefed on Wednesday, February 5, in Athens about the international film production “Man of God”, by the project’s director-screenwriter, Yelena Popovic. The film, which is currently being shot in Greece with an international case, deals with the life of 20th century…

Feb 12, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Trailer for new St. Joseph the Hesychast documentary with Jonathan Jackson published online

A documentary on one of the greatest saints of the 20th century will soon be released. In the meantime, a trailer for the film, “Elder Joseph the Hesychast,” has been published online on the “sceptic production” YouTube page. St. Joseph is one of the newest saints of the Orthodox Church. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople announced…

Jan 23, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Hollywood star Jonathan Jackson joins fundraising campaign for Romanian Orthodox monastery in Ireland

Jonathan Jackson calls for funds to be raised for the Romanian Orthodox Monastery in Shannonbridge, Ireland. In a video message on Facebook, the Holywood star expressed his appreciation for the initiative of establishing a monastic settlement in the “heart of Ireland” calling its founders ‘wonderful people’. “Hey everybody! I know there are a thousand things…

Sep 21, 2019Gheorghe Anghel