In plying the internet news very recently (as in five minutes ago) I was shocked, quite literally stunned, at an article about our brethren, the Orthodox. Says one Orthodox hierarch, 'Orthodoxy may need to adapt to the times to remain relevant in a changing world'. My heart sank. There is that vile and tenacious concern for 'relevancy' (about which our Lord seems not to have been the least bit concerned!) that was the oriflamme of the sixties and which spawned that liturgical, musical, and even theological debacle whose Stygian vapours still pollute the air and show every sign of hovering about, like a dread fog of ritual pollution, for decades to come. And to think that one had taken some encouragement from knowing that there was one, just one, branch of Christendom which was immune to the pied piper of the moderne, the chic, and the trashy music. From the snares of the devil, spare us, good Lord. Could it actually come to pass that the Orthodox will stop being orthodox? Will their liturgy be peppered with that insulting and stupid trivia that flows from the chatty mouths of Frs Good Morning Folks? Does this mean that the iconostasis will be competing for attention with amateruish and tasteless banners, and that their priests will all of a sudden claim that they can't or won't sing/chant? Surely their cantors won't be falling all over themselves learning how to pirouette and become masters of the technique of arm flailing?! Will their priests and influential laity begin to equivocate on niceties of dogma and doctrine that are embarrassing? Oh, please, let them not queue up to take any cues at all from their Roman Catholic brethren, for, surely, if they do they just might attract a few souls from this or that 'target group', but become irrelevant to those who keep the Faith. The last thing the world needs is a mega-church that thinks it is Orthodox - or orthodox.