The author is a convert priest from Anglicanism. They are an odd bunch, so many of these convert priests. They carry terrible baggage into Orthodoxy with them. They know all the rules, or what they think are rules, but sadly and even after many years, never come to understand Orthodoxy or our Orthodox phronema. It’s not magical thinking, it’s our mindset, our particular worldview.
Perhaps a shot in the dark here, but I’m guessing the author is working from the premise that Orthodoxy is already in many pieces. While oversimplifying, the truth is that the Orthodox Church consists of many jurisdictions which are not in communion with each other. Kolokotronis, you cannot say one leaves Orthodoxy in the same way a Roman Catholic can say one leaves Catholicism. Orthodoxy has no single See, but a conciliar system which, again, is in many pieces. Out of communion yes, but out of claimed Orthodoxy no.
The call here seems to be to recognize the history of the fraction tearing at the whole. The devil does not fight over conquered ground.
Convert disease.
But the warning signs should be acknowledged none the less. My bride is Catholic, and has suddenly realized that many of the priests in our home diocese are no longer Nicean Christians (they deny the Incarnation).
When a priest, on Christmas, gets up and says that Jesus was not “a god” till maybe after the Resurrection, you have a problem. Such things don’t happen overnight though, and I had noticed this years ago.