A Future for British Orthodoxy
British culture is strange and I speak as an Englishman. We have a reputation for being anti-intellectual yet our history has contributed some of the best minds on the planet. We were on the...
View ArticlePersecuting Christianity… in Europe
The Russian Orthodox Church is going to challenge in court a ban on wearing crucifixes, which was recently introduced in the UK. Russian priests, together with Russian lawyers, intend to help...
View ArticleLondon Opens Russian Orthodox Priest’s Memorial
Reverend Yakov Smirnov, or James Smirnov as he is known in Britain, was a Russian Orthodox priest who lived in London in the early 1800s. Unusually, Smirnov was also a diplomat who played a key...
View ArticleOrthodoxy’s Western Heritage: St. Alban the Martyr
Today we celebrate the memory of St. Alban, Protomartyr of Britain. According to recent findings, St. Alban has been shown to be not only the protomartyr of Britain, but also the earliest martyr...
View ArticleLet Us Never Forget This Oneness of the Church of God: On the First...
And now we suddenly became aware that we had come into the West, not in a part of the world that was strange and alien to us but in a part of the world which for nearly a thousand years had shared with...
View ArticleMetropolitan Kallistos: No other Orthodox Has Had That Extent of Influence on...
So what interested him was not systems, but persons and their meeting. Not God as a philosophical idea, not God as somehow an explanation for the order that we find in the world round us. I don’t think...
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