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This is one of those questions that can easily come out wrong in print, and I don’t mean it to. So my apologies in advance if it does.
However, I recently read that Lauryn Hill is a convert to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and in thinking on it that makes some sense to me. Quite a few Americans of African descent have looked for their Faith in religions that had a connection with their ethnicity, and Christianity. Islam and variants of Islam have spread in the US to some extent in this fashion, and people in general seem to one to more strongly identify with their ethnic identity that ever in general. The Church, for that matter, has a long African history and is the region of the globe today where Catholicism is expanding most rapidly. And yet Hill’s example is the first I’ve heard of in that context (and there is an Ethiopian Catholic Church).
I wonder if we’re missing something here?
However, I recently read that Lauryn Hill is a convert to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and in thinking on it that makes some sense to me. Quite a few Americans of African descent have looked for their Faith in religions that had a connection with their ethnicity, and Christianity. Islam and variants of Islam have spread in the US to some extent in this fashion, and people in general seem to one to more strongly identify with their ethnic identity that ever in general. The Church, for that matter, has a long African history and is the region of the globe today where Catholicism is expanding most rapidly. And yet Hill’s example is the first I’ve heard of in that context (and there is an Ethiopian Catholic Church).
I wonder if we’re missing something here?