The Prayer of a Broken Heart

<p><span style=color: rgba(30 31 33 1)>What do African American spirituality and Orthodox Christianity have in common? More than you might think. Drawing on both his own background as a biracial convert to Orthodoxy and historical resources that span St. Athanasius to Frederick Douglass Fr. Paul Abernathy details the many intersections between these two traditions including a redemptive understanding of the Cross and a faith shaped by suffering and persecution. In so doing he points to a new path whereby Orthodox Christianity can uniquely answer the spiritual needs of African Americans.</span></p>