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Theological Patience Shapes Orthodox Christian Nation and Region
At its best, Orthodoxy has cultivated a spiritual life that nourished millions. At its worst, however, it's often been an accommodation with historical forces which are antithetical to the gospel too. And you can see today in Russia in which you have a church institution more or less being nothing but a propaganda wing of an authoritarian and terrorist government. So it's had both its good and its bad consequences over the centuries.