A web site dedicated to St Silouan provides a great variety of important and essential articles about Orthodox Christianty for both Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christians.

Early discussion and debate regardng the Nature of Christ -- Christological issues -- led to the dogmatic and doctrinal decisions of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Ecumenical Councils. The dual nature of Jesus Christ -- both Divine and human -- is an essential belief and teaching of the Early Church, and thus important reading for modern Christians if we are to avoid the heresies of the earliest centuries.

The "Romana" web page dedicated to Fr John Romanides (Memory Eternal) provides a variety of interesting and informative articles of interests to Orthodox Christians (in Greek and English), as does the Birth of the Theotokos Monastery.

Another web site provides additional articles by Metropolitan HIEROTHEOS of Nafpaktos.

Bishop ALEXANDER of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad provides a wonderful variety of study booklets on various topics of importance to Orthodox and non-Orthodox.  These "missionary booklets" are in Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

When the Councils met to discuss theological issues and render doctrinal truths, the dogma of Christianity, they also established the "rules" or "law" of the Church to ensure unity, uniformity, and common accord in the governing of the Church.  These are known as "Canon Law."

All Christians -- especially Orthodox Christians -- should be familiar with the Canon Law of the Church, both as "rule" and as guidelines within the life of the Church.

Every year, only within the Orthodox Church, and only at Jerusalem, is the world witness to the modern annual miracle of the Holy Fire of Pascha.

Two sites provide invaluable information about this centuries-old and continuous miracle of Holy Fire at Jerusalem made possible by God in and through the Holy Spirit.

Visitors to Orthodox Churches will always encounter a "sung" worship service.  It seems singing is all the Orthdodox do in the Liturgies and services of the Church.  There are, of course, exceptions.  However, the primary service most visitors (and all too often even Orthodox Christians) attend is a Divine Liturgy.

Depending on where the Faithful of the visited Church come from --- Greece, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe --- most non-Orthodox visitors in America will either hear musical melodies and modes that are familiar to them; i.e., "Western" style with four-part harmony often referred to as Slavonic, or something that sounds very exotic and foreign or Middle Eastern.  This "foreign" sounding music is most often termed simply as Byzantine.

The musical beauty of Orthodox Christian worship is, like the Church itself, a 2000-year-old history with which all Christians --- espeically Orthodox Christians --- should know and with which they should become familiar.

An excellent resource for initial study of the music and hymnology of the Orthodox Church can be found at Ligurgica.com, and you are encouraged to visit this wonderful resource where you can read about the liturgies of the Jewish, Early Christian, Orthodox, Western, and even Protestant churches (note the menu tabs at the left of this resource page).

It is not uncommon in many American Orthodox Churches, especially those of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese with its Middle Eastern but numerous American converts to Orthodox Christianity, and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) with its Russian Orthodox roots, to hear a mixture of both Byzantine and Slavonic hymn, melodies, or tones.

This is how it is a the Parish of St Timothy in Fairfield, California.  Fear not!  Non-Orthodox visitors, and even Orthodox Christian visitors, will be able to understand all that is being sung and said as our services are in English -- the "common language" of America (and most of the world).