Seattle Times Janet I. Tu April 6, 2007
Sean Dimond, a 39-year-old Seattleite who works for a nonprofit organization, grew up Southern Baptist and, through the years, has attended Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Catholic and evangelical churches.
He sought personal, authentic ways to express his faith and integrate it more fully with his everyday life. But his method of picking and choosing from a variety of religious traditions began to feel unsatisfying.
“It began to feel self-referential. Like I was the sole determining factor of what was relevant for me,” he said.
That season of discontent eventually led Dimond somewhere he’d never really considered before: the Orthodox Church.
“I thought I knew what Eastern Orthodoxy was: a more archaic version of Roman Catholicism but with cooler hats,” he said. “I realized I didn’t have a clue.”
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