Young men leaving traditional churches for ‘masculine’ Orthodox Christianity in droves

“The hard thing about growing up in my church is that there was a lot of change even in my lifetime,” he told The Post. “I realized that there really was no way to stop the change.”

He watched as traditions went by the wayside: The robed choir was swapped out for a worship band, lines were blurred on female ordination, and long-held stances on LGBT issues shifted.

“All of that stuff was basically fungible, which gave me a sense that the theological commitments are kind of fungible, too,” he said.