“What many in the West know about Eastern Orthodoxy comes from the 2002 comedy film My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding. It’s the story of Ian, an irreligious American, who marries Toula, a girl from a Greek Orthodox family. Ian happily undergoes a Greek Orthodox baptism and wedding to please the girl he loves. He seems to find quaint the rituals—all performed in Greek—that are so important to Toula’s family.”
“That’s how Orthodoxy often appears to outsiders—quaint and unintelligible. But Orthodoxy is neither of those characteristics to the people of Eastern Europe; it is the dominant worldview there. And tragically, despite its claim to be the true Church of Jesus Christ, its practices may actually hinder people from coming to know him.”