I attended the Romanian Orthodox Holy Liturgy service today (and part of the Morning Mass too) at St Dunstan-in-the-West church in Fleet St, London. It’s very different to a Baptist or Anglican service. The biggest difference perhaps is how traditional or “untopical” it is. Apart from a few brief words at the end about the tsunami it could have been a service held at any time over the last 500 years. At a time when when Anglicans, Catholics, Budhists and Muslims are working together to provide aid and having to deal with the question of “why does God allow such suffering?” The Orthodox Church seems to have side stepped the question altogether and made the comment that “we should help these people even though they are not Christians”. I believe there was a collection point in the church for the tsunami although I didn’t see it. Having said that it was a lovely church, full of worshippers and the bit where all the babies being spoonfed wine was a cute thing to see.