November 2, 2009
GUEST COMMENTARY
GUEST COMMENTARY: Why Bartholomew’s U.S. visit matters
By Evan C. Lambrou
RNS-LAMBROU-COLUMN
(RNS) With his flowing white beard and long black raiment fluttering in the wind while blessing the waters of the Mississippi through an ancient rite, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's 250 million Orthodox Christians, looks like a throwback from the past. Yet this throwback has very salient and progressive contemporary concerns. By Evan C. Lambrou. About 850 words.