St. Thomas’s children

Interesting article about Mar Thoma Church, an India-based Christian denomination with roots in the Syrian Orthodox Church that is seeing some growth in the Philadelphia area. “Mar Thoma” means “St. Thomas” in Malayalam, a language spoken in Southwest India, referring to the traditional belief that Thomas the Apostle carried the Gospel to India. The church is described as combining “a Protestant reform emphasis in terms of its attention to preaching and the Bible” and “rituals [that] are Eastern in tradition.” (See here for more history.)