One (and only?) God
5 min readMar 1, 2024
When he was fifteen years old, John was living a perfectly normal life for a Christian teenager in the South Indian state of Kerala. He went to the local school, and to the nearby Orthodox church for religious instruction . And then something happened that radically changed his life. He went to the theater.
Kerala is home to two of the oldest existing theatrical traditions in the world, which are kept as national treasures, but…