In my last letter, I shared my thoughts on how a secularist distinction between “ethnicity” (something “of the body”) and “religion” (something “of the mind”) disrupts liturgical kinship in the Syriac Orthodox tradition. Kinship, as I understand it, is the set of relations that makes us who we are. The post On Not Understanding the Words appeared first on Public Orthodoxy.| Public Orthodoxy
From the Editors: This essay is the first of a three-part series in which the author imagines herself corresponding directly with a recent OCSC webinar attendee who asked about advice for American Orthodox converts in ethnic parishes. To learn more about the author’s work on Syriac Orthodoxy that prompted the question, you can watch the... The post Being vs. Becoming Christian appeared first on Public Orthodoxy.| Public Orthodoxy