Devotional column: “Happy Christians”

John Filipovich 19/1/2012 Recently, I read an interview with young travelers who, after searching for a fuller, more authentic expression of Christianity, converted to Orthodox Christianity. One of them said something that struck me. She said, “We were all tired of churches where people didn’t seem to be searching for literal salvation, but had settled for feeling happy as the meaning of Christianity.” Christianity is not about feeling happy all the time, at least not in the way we ordinarily think of being happy.