All posts by: phoebe@beingincommunity.com

Gifts for the Bookish Mom on Mother’s Day

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail I’ve got some great gift ideas for your bookish moms and women who want to be moms this Mother’s Day, with some book giveaways too! Because of the COVID-19 shut downs, most of these items will... Read More

Taking Our Thoughts Captive

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail A little bit over a year ago, my first book, Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church came out. And ever since the global COVID-19 pandemic began, the question... Read More

The Work of a Witness

I am enjoying Laura Jansson’s new book, Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy, a new release from Ancient Faith Press, and I’m pleased to share today a wonderful guest post that isn’t just about how she bears witness as a... Read More

Dreading Holy Week

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Two years ago I wrote this piece as a guest post on Traces of Faith, my friend Traci Rhoades’ blog. It was a part of a series about the way different Christian faith traditions worship. Looking... Read More

This is faith

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail I’m feeling the sting. Three weeks and no Divine Liturgy, after spending my whole life being taught and teaching others that the Eucharist is central to the life of a Christian and the life of the... Read More

A Quarantine Litany

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail For those who are sick with any sicknesses, physical, emotional, spiritual, let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy. For all those who care for the sick, whether they are in homes, hospitals or other... Read More

Spiritual Warfare Everywhere

A guest post in the season of Lent By Jessica Ryder-Khalil Some conversations stay with you for years, remaining in our memories as the building blocks of our love for each other. I had one of those enduring talks with... Read More

God didn’t say, “You have to stop being autistic first and then I’ll come be with you.”

Today I am thrilled to share this engaging and enlightening video conversation between Allison Backous Troy, writer and vlogger at The Shared World, and Summer Kinard, author and blogger at Words in Season, about Summer’s newly published book, Of Such... Read More

My Lenten Reading List for 2020, with 8 book giveaways, a free spiritual reading journal, and new resources

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail Lent has begun, and with it less time spent feeding our bodies and more time feeding our souls. This year I have a wonderful Lent book list that I’m so excited to share with you. If... Read More

How I read 230 books in 2019

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail In the words of Austin Kleon, “I’m monogamous in my love life, but promiscuous in my reading life.” In 2019 I set a very lofty goal of 220 books on my Goodreads challenge, and while things looked iffy... Read More