The Russian diaspora Church and Idaho potatoes

Yes, I can get exasperated at the management of our diocese, bitter at the way that some of my colleagues sacrificially work their butts off for very little – or no - money,  while others come and go as they please or build up power positions, and Moscow does not seem to care a tinker’s cuss.

But something tells me that this may be symptomatic of something much deeper: of a fundamental incoherence in the position of the Orthodox Church outside its ‘home’ territories.

Remember the story of Macdonalds and the Idaho potatoes?

 

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