:The Orthodox Church offers the spiritual healing so many need as they realize the emptiness of secularism and materialism. The task for us in the Church is to offer true spirituality rather than the empty entertainment that passes for Christianity in the West. We must get beyond duels over the Scripture with fundamentalists and revisionists, and instead challenge people with the evidence we have for the true healing and ''theosis'' found only in the Orthodox Church.

Expanding on his remarks published in the November 2004 ''Word Magazine'', Bishop [[Nikolai (Soraich) of Sitka and Anchorage]] ([[OCA]]) had this to say in an open letter in the Winter 2005 issue of his diocesan publication, ''The North Star'' (pp. 3-4):