The Really Mysterious Church

There's an interesting post at "Get Religion" about the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy. We've always been intrigued by Orthodoxy. Years ago, we read Faber & Faber's re-issuance of The Philokalia , practically memorized Kallistos Ware's modern classic, The Orthodox Way, and enjoyed the works of Theophan the Recluse (his name attracted us). It was also an Orthodox editor, the good and kindly James Kushiner at Touchstone, who first published any of Eric Scheske's writings, and for that Eric will always be grateful.

Anyway, if you want to read a little about the Orthodox Church in America today, check out this link (see April 25, 2005 post). Excerpt:

This is also a favorite time of the year for journalists to write about the steady growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America, due, in large part, to a stream of coverts from evangelicalism, oldline Protestantism and even a few from Rome. The evangelicals are the sexy angle to the story, of course. There is a kind of exotic National Geographic quality to writing about scores of people from Campus Crusade for Christ, Oral Roberts University, Baylor, Wheaton, the Moody Bible Institute and lots of other strange places ending up in domed churches chanting the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.