The success of Russian missionaries came from their practice of going into a new area - this was especially true of the time of the taming of Russia\'s \"wild East\" - and simply living there and treating the indigenous peoples and their beliefs with respect. This is how they worked in Alaska, too. Eventually, people came to respect them and wanted to learn more about their beliefs.
A long-time convert priest I know once said that no-one should be allowed to publish anything about Orthodoxy until he/she has been Orthodox at least ten years. I wonder if ten years is enough. I see a lot of examples of recent converts who get hung up on externals and these people scare the living daylights out of me. Sometimes I feel we accept them into the Church too soon in their spiritual journey, and that instead of adopting an Orthodox worldview, they are actually corrupting the Church with their legalistic western mindset. They need more immersion time in real Orthodoxy or we\'ll end up with the blind leading the blind.
I agree that we need to do both, but I think we need to set a living example first, before we start talking and writing.
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