The Orthodox Way

The Prodigal Returns is available on this site as a free eBook written by Father Peter Farrington. It presents a description of the Orthodox spiritual life as a means of…

Heysham and St Patrick The British Isles are filled with holy places that should be places of pilgrimage for Coptic Orthodox Christians living and worshipping among them. The Church in…

The earliest known altar vessels were not found in Constantinople or Rome, but buried for safety in the remains of the Roman town of Durobrivae, in modern Cambridgeshire, near the…

St Perpetua was a noble young woman of the city of Carthage, and when the Christian faith was proscribed she bravely confessed, together with others of the Christian community. She…

There are many in our Coptic Orthodox Church who are unaware that the British Isles have an ancient and Orthodox heritage and history that stretches back even to the first…

St Thomas is referred to in each of the Gospels. In the Gospel of St Matthew 10:3 he appears in the list of the Twelve Apostles, where his name is…

Then He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, “What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road?” But they kept silent, for…

At a teaching group for our Orthodox Dogmatic Theology we were considering why the Word of God became man. We read together in the writings of St Athanasius that the…

I want to write about how we should view other people when we are feeling that we need to find an intimate relationship with another. I am writing elsewhere about…

And now I desire to describe to you the excellent history and the great repentance of the blessed woman Thais or Thaisis, for speech concerning her is most excellent, and…