Another Introduction
Posted by JohnS (April 30, 2006 at 7:26 pm)
Since Karl broke the ice, I’ll chime in too.
I began my journey to Eastern Christianity as a young child. I was initially drawn by an Orthodox cousin, the beauty of the iconography and the mysterious music. As a young adult, I began to read the Fathers of the Church and was finally drawn to the Divine Liturgy, which like our chant and iconography is our theology.
As an English Literature major, I’ve worked in marketing communications, media relations, employee communications and now, investor communications. I’m eager to apply all that God has given me to help bring the riches of Byzantine Eastern Christianity to the world. I believe the “Light of the East” offers the illumination of Christ that our world so desperately needs.
I hope others will engage with us in this Great Conversation with Christ, Sacred Scripture and the Church Fathers. What we need to do for the Church is beyond armchair philosophy though — it is time to act. The Byzantine Christian Churches (Catholic and Orthodox) are at a turning point.
Here is pictured one of the towers of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago, a sight I cannot behold without some feeling of sorrow.