[YeGoblynQueenne]

Thanks, that's a great insight into the Orthodox community in the States that I couldn't easily find otherwise. I do have some family in the States but they're third- and more distant cousins and I don't have any contact with them.

I think I remember about Iakovos marching with MLK. It's even a little surprising and I wonder if it wasn't all down to Iakovos' personality, kind of like the current Catholic pope is a bit of a maverick. Certainly, in Greece the church is not known for its support for civil liberties. I reckon there's many Greeks who have distanced themselves from the church exactly because of its extreme reactionary stance in many everyday issues, so the opposite of what happens in the States. Well, those are different countries :)

Thanks again for your unique perspective!