The Orthodox Way

Reflection The way of Discipleship turns everything upside down. In a world separated from God through self-centredness, self-indulgence, pride and every other sinful condition, it is easy to imagine that…

Reflection In about 385 A.D. a young monastic, St John Cassian, travelled with a friend from a monastery in Bethlehem into the Egyptian deserts. He was intending to visit the…

Reflection When the rich young ruler came to Jesus, he found that he was asked to let go of his possessions and take up his cross. He thought that he…

Reflection When Jesus called his disciples they were ordinary men who had ordinary lives and ordinary occupations. Most of them were fishermen, one was a Government official. None were especially…

Outline Each day there will be between 2000-2500 words of text provided which will include a chapter from the Gospels, so that we read all four Gospels in the course…

How do we become Orthodox? How do we become more Orthodox? It might seem that the answer is concerned only with external things such as a familiarity with the forms…

I need to begin by saying that in the most important sense, the right Christmas is when our Church community calls us together to celebrate it. We should never imagine…

If God is Love, why Hell, “Purgatory”, Judgement, Eternal Punishment, Darkness and the Lake of Fire? I want to speak very much more briefly on a second topic, which is…

7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and…

Eutyches and the Oriental Orthodox tradition The Oriental Orthodox communion has been regularly and routinely accused of following the teaching of Eutyches, the controversial archimandrite of Constantinople. Historical sources, such…