Today I am excited to share a guest post from my friend Allison Backous Troy on a topic we both hold dear: socially conscious shopping. A few weeks ago I shared a book review of The Grace of Enough by... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail A few weeks ago my nine-year old son tripped and fell at school, cutting a hole in his favorite pair of russet red cargo pants – a pair I had just recently purchased for him. He... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail This is my second installment of an occasional series where I share three (or four, or five) great things on the internet—something to read, something to listen to, something to watch, and occasionally, something to buy... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail A board member stepped down. Another volunteer quit. Why? Someone misspelled the name of my town in the newspaper ad for our first ever town-wide garage sale. They didn’t quit their roles in the town community... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail I am thrilled to announce that Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church will be published by Paraclete Press, God willing, in early 2019! I have been working on... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail In the span of two weeks, two women I love and admire passed away. Both were older–great-grandmothers—and both had fallen ill in the months before their deaths, so they weren’t surprises. But these were women that... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail This is my first installment of an occasional series in which I share three great things on the internet—something to read, something to listen to, and something to watch. These range from the important to the... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Read to the end to find out how you can enter to win one of two copies of This is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick! Whether you have already taken your summer vacation, or are... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Around the world, the Coptic community, scholars of Coptology, and the ecumenical community are reeling over the violent murder of His Grace Bishop Epiphanius, the abbot of the Monastery of St. Macarius. That a monastery would... Read More

By Fr. Peter Farrington We live in an age when each one of us is surrounded by hundreds and thousands of people each day. At school, at work, and in the streets, we are crowded around with others. Even if... Read More