The author wrote: “ This tendency toward conflating Christian community with ethnic boundaries is not a new one for Eastern Orthodoxy. While other Christian communions must combat similar attitudes, the structure of the Eastern Orthodox Church makes it particularly prone to this struggle.”

The rest of the article did not make it clear why this is particularly a struggle for Orthodoxy compared to anyone else. Divisions among Lutherans in America were largely on ethnic divides, which reflected doctrinal divisions in the old country between state churches.

And even though the LCMS was founded as a rejection of the Prussian union and state church in Germany, it maintains to this day an English and Slovak district even though everyone now speaks English. And it took two world wars with Germany before German really started to be shed and for the LCMS to open up more to her American neighbors.

The author correctly noted that many groups struggle with a wrong attitude about church and nation but the article did not make it clear to me why the Lutheran Confessions prevent the same sort of problem from happening among Lutherans vs Orthodox.