Orthodox Engagement
6 Million American Orthodox? The Real Story - Matthew Namee
There are memes and headlines going around tracking a change from 700,000 American Orthodox Christians in 2020 to 6 million in 2024. With the convert surge going on, this sounds... plausible? Matthew Namee joins Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick to talk about not only whether those numbers really make sense but also the history of how Orthodox Christians in America have been counted. He also unpacks for us his discoveries about the demographics of Orthodox in America, culled from studies of the general American population.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick conducts in-depth interviews to tell stories of the working of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the whole creation—in culture, in personal, community and public life. In today’s world what we need most is neither polemic nor compromise, but engagement.
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