Tag: African American Orthodoxy
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Black Voices in the Orthodox Church
by Fr. Matthew Brown | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Русский Black Americans make up a tiny percentage of Orthodox Christians in the United States. Considering how difficult it is for someone from our American culture to convert to the Orthodox faith, it makes the stories of the seven Black individuals in the most recent issue […]
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Fr. Raphael Morgan, the First Orthodox Priest of African Descent in America
by Dellas Oliver Herbel Some of the readers of Public Orthodoxy may have read my book Turning to Tradition: Converts and the Making of an American Orthodox Church. Those who have will have heard of Fr. Raphael Morgan. Others might not have read the book, but may be aware of him, perhaps due to his […]
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African American Orthodox Christians
by Lydia Kemi Ingram | ελληνικά | ру́сский | српски In 2016, I began a series of interviews with African American Orthodox Christians in four regions of the United States. An integral component of a wider ethnographic research project (one combining participant observation and digital research) personal narratives offer a necessary depth of insight into an Orthodox community […]