Goodbye Hebrew Roots Movement Hello Orthodoxy: What Finally Led Me to the Ancient Faith | Taylor Biss

Her dad died by suicide when she was 9 and it rewired everything. Years later, a hunger for truth pulled her from non-denominational church to Hebrew Roots, then to Orthodox liturgy.

A faith crisis rarely starts with an abstract argument. Sometimes it starts with a funeral, a silent house, and a kid trying to understand why a father is suddenly gone. Our guest Taylor Biss (Voice of Taylor on Instagram) joins Jeremy Jeremiah of Cloud of Witnesses from Australia to share the story that shaped her: losing her Catholic father to suicide at nine years old, growing up detached, and carrying questions about grief, isolation, and what God does with the brokenhearted.

• childhood trauma after a parent’s suicide and the loneliness that follows
• wrestling with fears about eternity and learning to trust God’s compassion
• a decisive encounter with prayer and a message about God’s heart for daughters
• being discipled by older women and learning the basics of Christian faith
• tensions in non-denominational church life when serious Bible questions arise
• why Hebrew Roots feels solid at first through Torah, Sabbath, and festivals
• the movement’s internal chaos, sacred name confusion, and anti-divinity claims about Jesus
• a 2020 Israel trip exposing racism and excuses framed as “bloodline” privilege
• leaving Hebrew Roots, resisting New Age drift, and seeking reverent worship
• stepping into Orthodox Christianity and returning to weekly liturgy with her children

Taylor walks us through the moment everything changed at seventeen when she finally said yes to church and encountered Christ through prayer and a message about God’s heart toward daughters. We talk about discipleship, older women stepping in with real spiritual care, and how discovering the Father’s love can heal places you didn’t even know were starving. From there, the conversation turns to something many listeners will recognize: reading the Bible deeply, asking sincere questions, and realizing the non-denominational model often cannot answer with consistency or depth.

That hunger for truth leads Taylor into the Hebrew Roots movement, Torah-keeping, Sabbath practices, and biblical festivals that feel “original” at first, until the cracks show up: endless private interpretations, sacred name confusion that wrecks prayer, and even teaching that denies the divinity of Jesus. A trip to Israel in 2020 becomes a major turning point as she sees racism and spiritual double standards up close. When she finally steps away, she admits how close she comes to drifting into New Age spirituality, before a longing for reverent worship pulls her toward historic Christianity and her first Divine Liturgy during Holy Week and Pascha.

If you’ve wrestled with deconstruction, Hebrew Roots, church hurt, or a search for Orthodox Christianity that actually feels grounded, this one will meet you where you are. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s searching, and leave a review then tell us: what question or moment most shaped your faith journey?

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