Taken from his letters to Fr.Ambrose Young.
Third Day of Trinity, 1976
The events and revelations of recent months have driven us to some sober thoughts, in particular about the future. In reading the new Boston epistle[from Holy Transfiguration Monastery] to Metropolitan Anthony Bloom[exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate in London]- which is, of course, mostly "correct", as usual, but wrong in tone- only one thought stands out: This is a rehearsal for a very similar epistle to our own bishops! They feel themselves so strong and sassy now that it is obviously only a matter of time before they weary of the "incorrectness" and "inconsistency" of our bishops in not breaking off communion formally with all the Orthodox Churches. Doubtless they are already furious with us for revealing to the world in our new OW(Orthodox Word) that we have not broken with them. Zealotry is definately in the air now; it has even become the fashion in the English-speaking wing of our Church, and the more moderate position of our bishops will now come to seem intolerable to those who think "logically." All of which raises questions for us: Where do we stand now? Where do we go from here?
We cannot follow the line of "Boston Orthodoxy"- which is actually a kind of reformed Orthodoxy that happens to be mostly "correct" but is actually outside the tradition of Orthodoxy, a creation of human logic. It's a terrible temptation for our times, and most of the converts will probably be drawn into it. We fear that all our articles about zealotry in the past years have helped to produce a monster. For the future we will have to emphasize the "feel" of Orthodoxy, without which zealotry is empty and even harmful.
The "right-wing" of Orthodoxy will probably be divided into many small jurisdictions in the future, most of them anathematizing and fighting with the others... We must keep up the living contact with the older Russian clergy.