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FM-G isn't one of my favorite Orthodox writers. She is remarkably opinionated about matters Orthodox for someone who understands sooooo little about it. Ocassionally she writes something good, but in general she does not have, at least insofar as I can see in her writings, a well developed Orthodox phronema. Interestingly, my wife is in a study group of Orthodox women who right now are reading one of F M-G's books. The "cradle" Orthodox women and the wives of ethnic Orthodox guys don't like her one bit. The American convert women think she's great. This leads me to believe that she is writing for the American convert rather than Orthodox who live their daily lives in a sort of Orthodox milieu, which most serious cradle Orthodox families do. Personally, I think both she and her husband, an Antiochian priest now and a former ECUSA priest, represent a grave danger to orthodoxy in this country, a danger which is not only not recognized by the Antiochians, but positively fostered by that Archdiocese.