Vladimir Putin not only inherits the name of that famous Rus prince but he was also secretly baptized by his devout Russian Orthodox Christian mother. Putin considers himself to be the righteous warrior, the defender of the true Russian world that includes all of that old Rus' Empire. He, therefore, inherits the militant religious nationalism of Czar Peter the Great, whose czarship Putin emulates with the collusion of the Moscow Patriarchy.

The problem has been that each time there was an 'agreement' on important issues, at least some of which were accepted by the respective communions, as consonant with what they believed, some part of the Anglican Communion would take unilateral action which cast doubt on the strength of these agreements.

#ACNAtoo

In 2021 rumors rippled around Bishop Stewart Ruch (I ACNA Diocese of the Upper Midwest) for failing to reveal to his diocese alligations of child sex abuse leveled against Mark Rivers, a catechist, at Christ Our Light Church, an ACNA church plant in Big Rock, Illinois.

When I think of it, I am heartbroken. But I also feel angry. I brush up against something like a maternal sense of rage. An innocent child was violently killed because Russia's leader decided that he wanted a neighboring sovereign country as his own.