You’ll have to seek white papers on your own but there is value in seeing something with your own eyes and having it corroborated with stories from other parishioners around the country.

It’s happening all throughout the United States. Look at the availability of English-translated Orthodox writings and devotionals 20 years ago vs now. Even 10 or 5 years ago. Western laity is insatiably seeking a true faith as their churches fail to hold up in the post-modern world. As he mentions in the video people want a church that won’t leave them. Orthodoxy also promotes having many children which is different from what I see elsewhere and amplifies the growth.

The watered down and misdirected Christianity in the States is one of the reasons this instance and many people in general are so hostile to Christians. It goes back further though. Even the violence of the medieval periods where Catholics were converting nations at the edge of a sword. Orthodoxy has by and large spread peacefully and embraces the Christ in the native cultures (as opposed to being monolithically Roman) which is why there are many different jurisdictions for the different nations of people. The Aleut people of Alaska are a great example of what I mentioned above.

All Christians are hypocrites that fall short of Christ but only Orthodoxy teaches the religion of the apostles in it’s fullness especially in regard to Christology and sotieriology.

My parish has doubled in size in the last two years.

Orthodoxy is indeed blooming in the West