The Great Schism is basically when the Christian church split in the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. This happened around 1054CE.  What had once been a single church slowly separated into two distinct identities.  Most of the differences that caused the split were almost nit-picking about what to believe and had little or nothing to do with how to “be” a Christian. This shows us that the belief vs action dilemmas have a long origin. The Eastern Church (Orthodox) used Greek as its language; The Western (Roman) Church used Latin. Eastern clergy could marry and wore beards; Western … Continue reading The Second Great Rummage Sale — The Great Schism