Quote: “I find the Greek Orthodox Church a sort of a wonderfully moderate, accepting faith.”
Oh, there would be sooooo many Greek saints rolling in their graves...if they weren’t already in heaven.
It sounds like she thinks she’s in the Episcopal Church, only with better food.
In Greek to be a moderate has nothing to do with politics. It means to be even tempered, etc.
The link at # 5 the patristic path of moderation, a mean between extremes; this is what the Holy Fathers call the ROYAL PATH. The teaching of this "royal path" is set forth, for example, in the tenth of St. Abba Dorotheus' Spiritual lnstructions, where he quotes especially the Book of Deuteronomy: Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, but go by the royal path (Deut. 5:32, 17:11)