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American Orthodoxy’s Farthest-Reaching Institution

by Nick Tabor

It’s been fifteen years since the Maddexes, a plucky Midwestern family who had recently joined the Orthodox Church, launched Ancient Faith Radio with two computers on their back porch. At first it was a streaming station, full of liturgical music they had uploaded from their friends’ CD collections.

Nick Tabor

Nick Tabor is a reporter. He was formerly on the editorial staff of New York Magazine and has written for the Oxford American, the Paris Review, and other magazines and newspapers. He edits Jacob’s Well, the journal of the OCA diocese of New York and New Jersey. He is currently working on a book about environmental racism on the Gulf Coast.

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