There are things about the Orthodox that I truly treasure, and if I were to leave my denomination in which I am ordained, it would probably be for the Orthodox or for another protestant group that I deeply admire.
I’ve been reading Greek Orthodox devotionals lately, and I’m impressed with the lives of past Christians that are presented. It’s a good thing to do. In a practical sense, we in the protestant movement always operate as if our generation is the only one that is significant.
I don’t know the schism you all refer to, but I will tell you that I wish it had never happened.
Your words remind me of one of my favorite quotes from G.K. Chesteron:
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."
Well timed as the Orthodox Church begins its annual celebration of the Three Hierarchs:
Apolytikion of Three Hierarchs in the First Tone
The three most great luminaries of the Three-Sun Divinity have illumined all of the world with the rays of doctrines divine and true;
they are the sweetly-flowing rivers of wisdom, who with godly knowledge have watered all creation in clear and mighty streams:
The great and sacred Basil, and the Theologian, wise Gregory, together with the renowned John, the famed Chrysostom of golden speech.
Let us all who love their divinely-wise words come together, honouring them with hymns;
for ceaselessly they offer entreaty for us to the Trinity.