between Catholicism and Protestantism. In the course of my reading, however, I saw that another perspective—the most ancient of all—was relevant to my search: the perspective of the Orthodox Church. Who were the Orthodox, anyway? I had had some exposure to them. Their churches dot the landscape of western Pennsylvania, where I grew up. I had many Orthodox classmates throughout my years in elementary and secondary school. But I had simply written off Orthodoxy as a sort of “underdeveloped”