Father Peter Farrington is a priest of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, dedicated to exploring the intersection of theology, politics, and culture.
Recent Articles by Peter Farrington
What’s behind the Manchester attack? It’s not poverty
The suicide bomb attack in Manchester on Monday, May 22, was the worst terrorist atrocity to strike the UK since the London multiple bomb attack in 2005. A terrorist detonated a suitcase
Brexit: For the life of the world
Although it is often portrayed as the bitter backlash of racist voters, Brexit will allow the UK to shake loose EU regulations and pursue free trade policies that assure the further
The West must grieve, and relieve, the Coptic church bombing victims
As I was about to begin celebrating the Divine Liturgy of Palm Sunday in the Coptic church I was serving in Great Britain, the first news of the terrorist attack on a church in Tanta, Egypt
The missing element in the Middle Eastern refugee debate: private philanthropy
In my hometown in the southeast of England, the evidence of generations of philanthropy can be found everywhere. In the middle of the nineteenth century, one of the wealthier residents of
Public Christmas celebrations heal society, from Aleppo to Aberdeen
It is surely significant that as soon as the people of Aleppo found themselves liberated from the murderous and brutal control of the Islamic State, they gathered together whatever they