The Orthodox Way

I am often engaged in conversation with Protestants and Evangelicals of various different backgrounds, and almost invariably the discussion will come down to a difference of opinion about authority. In…

The idea that Christians do not need the Church and can find spiritual life and sure guidance without membership of any organised community of believers is a very recent but…

On the Incarnation – Chapter 7 Text 1. But just as this consequence must needs hold, so, too, on the other side the just claims of God lie against it:…

At a recent service I was describing the Orthodox Christian life as I understand it, and as the Fathers teach it. It is union with God in Christ by the…

On the Incarnation – Chapter 6 Text 1. For this cause, then, death having gained upon men, and corruption abiding upon them, the race of man was perishing; the rational…

On the Incarnation – Chapter  5 Text 1. For God has not only made us out of nothing; but He gave us freely, by the Grace of the Word, a…

  I was born into a Protestant family. My parents were committed and devout evangelical Christians, and they brought me up to be active in my faith, and in the…

Good news? The Christian message is one of Good News for all mankind, but over the centuries it has been misunderstood and misrepresented. Orthodox Christianity has preserved the faith which…

Father Peter Farrington travelled down to Glastonbury on Friday, 19th August. In the past the British Orthodox diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church had celebrated occasional liturgies there. One of…

Yesterday [back in 2016 now] I was blessed indeed to celebrate for the first time the Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St Basil at the Abbey of St Mary in Glastonbury.…