What on earth is the Coptic Church? Most of us only know about the 21 Coptic martyrs of 2015, or about the Coptic Church rejecting the Council of Chalcedon in 451. But who are the Copts? Why did they part ways with the rest of the Church? And has persecution prompted us to reconsider if we're closer to them than we think? This week, Onsi (our resident Copt!) gets quizzed by Rhys and Colin.

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Currently Reading
Onsi: Three Arabaic Treatises on Aristotle's Rhetoric: The Commentaries of Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes  
Colin: his own tweets
Rhys: The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Texts Discussed
"Unity Across the Chalcedonian Divide" by Lukas Stock
The 21: A Journey Into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
"Cyril of Alexandria, letter to John of Antioch (Formula of Reunion)" by Cyril of Alexandria

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