Katie Kelaidis is a writer and historian whose work focuses on early Medieval Christianity and contemporary Orthodox identity in non-traditionally Orthodox countries. She has also written for Salon, Ms. Magazine, and The New Republic.
Recent moves by the deeply conservative Russian Orthodox Church, combined with acts of Russian state aggression, can only be seen as concrete efforts to undermine liberal democracy around the world.
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