It is always fascinating to watch people move the proverbial goalposts to serve their own whims and desires. The author here is clearly unaware of their un-ironic sleight of hand, most likely believing that this was well thought out.

Of interest, for example, is the specificity of "Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod" noted toward the end of the article. We are led to believe that disputes among Orthodox about the autocephalous nature of individual jurisdictions is somehow major cause for concern, but that this same concern somehow, magically, does not apply to the world of Lutheranism as a whole, which is a hot-mess of theological disagreements (and always has been), all of which falls under the even bigger umbrella of Protestantism, a great deal of which was inspired by Lutheran teachings and upon none of which all of them come anywhere close to agreement.

The author lectures us that churches tied to states is somehow de facto proof that the Orthodox Church is not "one" or "true," all while apparently failing to recall that we are barely a century away from a small event known as World War I, in which Lutheran Churches on opposite sides of the Atlantic each believed that their host country was on the side of Good and that the other was evil incarnate (see: Jenkins, Philip, The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade).

Or should we go down the path of Luther himself being tied to German princes, thus enabling his success beyond that of his predecessors who had already said the same things?

There is a reason why Lutheranism's greatest historian became Orthodox. Think deeper, please.