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In this fourth post considering the issue of Orthodox women receiving communion during their monthly period we will begin to draw on other Patristic material to widen the scope of…

This is the third in a series of posts dealing with the issue of Orthodox women receiving communion during the time of their monthly period. We have just read the…

This is the second part of a series of blog posts on this issue of women and the reception of communion during their monthly period. I have spoken about my…

This first topic is one which is often the subject of the questions I receive from Orthodox women. Should Orthodox women be able to receive communion during their monthly period.…

I am a priest of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and have been a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church for 22 years. I am not accidentally Orthodox. I am Orthodox…

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Matt 18:1 Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?…

Almost the last words which our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God incarnate, spoke to his friends and Apostles, and his last commandment, was that they go into the…

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into…

When I was an evangelical it was customary for some who thought they were cool to respond to the question, What Church do you belong to? with the answer, I’m…

The Christian Gospel is the proclamation of the union between God and man, and the renewal of the divine-humanity which Adam abandoned. It is not possible to become that man…