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Greek Like Me

A podcast about all things Greek. History. Language. Lore. Culture. Food. Mythology. Family and more. From diners to the Ottoman Empire, from the history of baklava to Greek Independence. What it means to be Greek and how it shapes our world.

Posts in Faith
Annunciation/Independence Day
Annunciation/Independence Day

Why Greeks bound the fight for independence to the Feast Day of the Annunciation. And how the sacrifice and faith of the Virgin Mary resounded with the Greek fight for liberty.

Bouboulina, culture, Faith, Greek, Greek heroes, Greek Independence, Greek Revolution, heroes, history, Icons, Long live Greece, Nafplio, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Lent, Orthodoxy, Rebels, Annunciation, Paleion Patron Germanos, March 25Pamela Diotes Wood#march25, #annunciation, #annunciationofthetheotokos, #greekindependence, #greekrevolution, #ottomanoccupation, #metropolitangermanos, #greekorthodoxchurch, #greekhistory, #liberty, #freedomComment
Greeks & the Civil Rights Movement Part 2
Greeks & the Civil Rights Movement Part 2

A man of conscience continues to push the Greek Orthodox faithful in America to take a stand for justice and equal rights in the 1960s and beyond. And scholars’ take on the bizarre “reverse empathy” of today’s conservative Greeks.

Civil Rights, Women of Epirus, Whiteness, The Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, Religion, Racism, Protests, Political Protest, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christian, Jim Crow, history, Greek pirates, Greek, Faith, Archbishop Iakovos, Justice, MLK, BLMPamela Diotes Wood#orthodoxchristianity #archbishopiakovos #mlk #civilrights #votingrightsact #freedom #equalrights #history #BLM #AHEPA #justice #bloodysunday #selma #reverseracism #americanhistory #americangreeks #archbishopelpidophoros, #reverseempathyComment
Asa Jennings & The Greek Genocide of Asia Minor, Part 1
Asa Jennings & The Greek Genocide of Asia Minor, Part 1

600 years of brutal persecution by Turkish oppressors culminated in the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor. We’ll talk historical context and introduce Asa Jennings, the humble American who said “Enough!”

Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Ethnic cleansing, Faith, Greek, Greek genocide, history, Holocaust, massacre, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Occupation, Refugees, Smyrna, Spetses, World War One, The First Balkan War, Asia Minor, Neruddin PashaPamela Diotes Wood#asiaminor, #greekgenocide, #nationalistturks, #history, #massacre, #smyrnaComment
The Ecclesiastical New Year
The Ecclesiastical New Year

Why is September 1 a big deal for Orthodox Christians? We explore the purpose and history of the Ecclesiastical New Year, St. Symeón the Stylite, and the Green Patriarch.

Patriarchal Encyclical For the Indiction Published 8/27/20

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeo chants "Φως ιλαρόν" Joyous Light

What is the Ecclesiastical New Year?

Faith, Greek, history, Orthodoxy, Religion, tradition, Ecclesiastical New Year, Orthodox Christianity, The Green Patriarch, Patriarch Bartolomeo, Jewish Tradition, Jesus, HarvestPamela Diotes Wood#orthodoxchristianity, #jesus, #ministy, #greekculture, #faith, #ecclesiasticalnewyear, #stsymeon, #stsymeonthestylite, #thegreenpatriarch, #ecumenicalpatriarch, #patriarchbartolomeo, #jewishtradition, #harvest, #indictum, #greektradition, #greeklikemepodcastComment
Red Easter Eggs & The Meaning of Pascha
Red Easter Eggs & The Meaning of Pascha

Why Orthodox call Easter Pascha, the spiritual symbolism of red Easter eggs - and how Greeks square off in an egg cracking competition that will leave one egg standing.

Closing music: Holy Thursday Hymn Simeron kremate epi xilou featuring Iro Saia

Links:

Greek Easter Egg Fight

Ukrainian Easter Egg Decorating Kit

Fresco of Mary Magdalene presenting red egg to Tiberius

culture, ethnic, Faith, Greek, history, Orthodox Christian, Orthodox Easter, Orthodoxy, Pascha, Religion, tradition, Greek Easter eggs, Greek egg cracking game, The ResurrectionPamela Diotes Wood#orthodoxeaster, #orthodoxchristianity, #pascha, #kalianastasi, #holythursday, #kokkinaavya, #κόκκινααυγα, #redeggs, #tsougrisma, #τσούγκρισμα, #earlychristians, #greekeaster, #thelastsupperComment