Sometimes I think it's good to be a member of a church that is for the most part conducted in a language other than English, and its (long!) marriage service requires not even an "I do" of bride and groom.
I'm not a church goer, and neither were my parents except sometimes, but when I walk into a Greek Orthodox church I'm in a familiar, d…
Sometimes I think it's good to be a member of a church that is for the most part conducted in a language other than English, and its (long!) marriage service requires not even an "I do" of bride and groom.
I'm not a church goer, and neither were my parents except sometimes, but when I walk into a Greek Orthodox church I'm in a familiar, dependable space.
The Greek Orthodox Church takes no political stances, although Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America, before the patriarch in Constantinople split that role and made the position less powerful, marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
Trans stuff? BLM? Victim classes? It's all so transitory and meaningless. Orthodoxy is what it is and doesn't change and lets us live our lives. We can get divorced and still get remarried in the church. I have never heard of anyone getting expelled. Priests can marry unless they aspire to be bishops. Greek gay people who want to get married go to a justice of the peace, and I don't notice any prejudice or fulminations against gay people either. We don't hear a lot about damnation. The chants are beautiful. So are the Byzantine ikons.
Sometimes I think it's good to be a member of a church that is for the most part conducted in a language other than English, and its (long!) marriage service requires not even an "I do" of bride and groom.
I'm not a church goer, and neither were my parents except sometimes, but when I walk into a Greek Orthodox church I'm in a familiar, dependable space.
The Greek Orthodox Church takes no political stances, although Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America, before the patriarch in Constantinople split that role and made the position less powerful, marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
Trans stuff? BLM? Victim classes? It's all so transitory and meaningless. Orthodoxy is what it is and doesn't change and lets us live our lives. We can get divorced and still get remarried in the church. I have never heard of anyone getting expelled. Priests can marry unless they aspire to be bishops. Greek gay people who want to get married go to a justice of the peace, and I don't notice any prejudice or fulminations against gay people either. We don't hear a lot about damnation. The chants are beautiful. So are the Byzantine ikons.
It's pretty easy.