Really red counties

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  • Tanya 01.21.2008

    You are right; that is quite hum­bling… But look at Alaska — that’s our Ortho­dox broth­ers and sis­ters speak­ing :) Well, hopefully.

  • Grace

    You know, I couldn’t tell whether it was or not. The Ortho­dox coun­ties should be gray with a num­ber 5 in the mid­dle. I tried to blow this up in Pho­to­shop to read those teensy num­bers, but I couldn’t. All the same, they don’t look like 5’s in Alaska.

    The other thing on the index I wish some­one could explain to me is what’s up with those yel­low coun­ties des­ig­nated as “Chris­t­ian.” Um, s’cuse me? So the rest of these are Catholic Jew­ish and Bap­tist Hindu or something?

  • Tanya

    oh, i think you are right.… I can’t read the num­bers, either, but they look more like 2 and 7 than 5… :(
    and yes, the “Chris­t­ian” cat­e­gory raised my eye­brows, too. Maybe they mean non-denominational Christian?

  • Mimi

    Yeah, I was kind of won­der­ing about Jew­ish myself.

  • Grace

    I tried to find the orig­i­nal loca­tion on the Web­site where this map appeared to see if they explained things a lit­tle, but I couldn’t. I’ll dive in again and see if I can clear things up.

    In the mean­time, though, this is handy for show­ing the big pic­ture if it’s a lit­tle con­fus­ing in the details.

  • BJohnD

    Accord­ing to state­ments I’ve read by Bishop Niko­lai of the OCA’s Russ­ian Ortho­dox Dio­cese of Alaska, Ortho­doxy is the largest, and fastest grow­ing, church in Alaska. I’m sched­uled to take a busi­ness trip to Anchor­age in early April. I’ll be very inter­ested to see if I can “tell” it’s Ortho­dox Lent while I’m there.

  • Grace

    That will be inter­est­ing. I took an Alaskan cruise last spring, and I admit I was a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed on that front, but I prob­a­bly had unre­al­is­tic expec­ta­tions. I was kind of think­ing that you’d see Ortho­dox churches there the way you see Bap­tist and Methodist churches here, which is to say that most of the churches turn out to be one of those two things. On the other hand, I really wasn’t in Anchor­age for very much time. I saw the towns that are the tourist stops on the cruise — Ketchkikan, Skag­way, Juneau and oth­ers. Maybe Anchor­age has a more Ortho­dox feel to it if you hang around long enough to see.

    In any case, it’s bound to be an inter­est­ing busi­ness trip.

  • BJohnD

    Absolutely. I’ve never been up there, so I’m pretty excited. I’d love to make it to Pre­sanc­ti­fied Liturgy at St. Inno­cent Cathe­dral while I’m there.

    My sense is it will at least be on the radar screen, in a way it is NOT in North­ern California!

    BJohnD

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