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A friend pointed me to a fascinating article in The New Republic profiling a handful of recent converts to the Orthodox Church. Not little-o orthodox, but Big-O Orthodox. You know, the ones that trace their doctrinal decisions and their lines of leadership back to the original apostles?

It's interesting in part because the principal subjects of the article live in Wheaton, IL -- the Rome of the Evangelical world, home do innumerable Christian colleges and publishers and organizations and churches. (Oh, man, the churches. Through the 80s, Wheaton was effectively a dry town -- I believe one, perhaps two businesses in the entire city were allowed liquor licenses, and grocery stores were SOL. Instead of bars, there were large swaths of Wheaton that had two, even three churches on a single street. But I digress.)