Tag: Martin Luther King
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Racism: An Orthodox Perspective
by Aristotle Papanikolaou | ελληνικά | ру́сский | српски The primary goal of the Orthodox Christian is to struggle toward theosis—deification. The word theosis often conjures up images of a super hero like Thor or a Greek god like Zeus. When St. Athanasius proclaimed that “God became human so that humans can become gods,” he was not envisioning […]
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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 […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
by Albert J. Raboteau Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, the son of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr., pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King’s childhood was happy and secure, though all too early he was made aware of the hurts inflicted by racism. Like his father, grandfather, and […]