The Oriental Orthodox Rejection of Chalcedon
The Oriental Orthodox are routinely accused of holding an heretical and Eutychianist Christology, and on that basis rejecting the Council of Chalcedon. Yet the evidence, from the time of Chalcedon,…
Suffer the little children!
Sometimes we think that is what is required of us. That we need to suffer the noise and fidgeting and inconvenience of having little children in the Liturgy with us.…
Orthodox Christianity – Good News
I am going to produce some draft copies of a small little 24pp A6 booklet to introduce the very basics of the Gospel. I’d be interested in comments. This is…
A forgotten Coptic Saint – St Timothy the Great
There are few of the Fathers of the Oriental Orthodox communion who escape uncritical censure on the part of the Eastern Orthodox. Uncritical because based on a few polemical comments…
Understanding Orthodoxy – Bishops
From the earliest years of the Church the role of bishop, or episkopos, has developed as a means of preserving the ministry of the Apostles into the more settled situation…
Infant Baptism?
I was recently asked how our Orthodox Church might be able to defend the practice of infant baptism when it does not appear to be taught in the Bible. This…
Video Lectures and Liturgy from US Service
Here are videos of the two lectures I gave at the 2017 SCOOCH Youth Conference with the blessing of HG Anba Angaelos, HG Anba Karas and the Oriental Orthodox bishops…
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal
It is hard to imagine that controversy can become so engrained an attitude that even the words of hymns become the subject of polemics. But this is the case. In…
Bishops and Priests
I was asked this morning by a friend, how it is that we have bishops and priests in the Orthodox Church, and how we should understand this structure in the…
Congregation Size – Sit the men down
There are times when I write about something which is doctrinal and even dogmatic. There are times when I write about the authentic spirituality which is the basis of our…