By Jessica Ryder-Khalil Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!  In the Orthodox Church we have recently completed our annual Lenten Fast and Holy Week leading to the Feast of the Resurrection.  Now we enter a new season, a new... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail If you’re an email newsletter subscriber, you’ve already gotten a sneak peak at some of the books on my annual Lent reading list when I sent it out on Ash Wednesday a few weeks ago. Want... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail A few months ago, on a visit to Egypt, I had the opportunity to visit the ancient archeological heritage site, Abu Mena, just outside the modern Monastery of St. Mina near Alexandria. Believers from all over... Read More

by Jessica Ryder-Khalil Today’s guest post is from a Being in Community frequent contributor, Jessica Ryder-Khalil. As skeletons, ghosts and other reminders of death adorn houses all around us in Western cultures as we head towards Halloween, Jessica’s words help... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail A bag full of hand me downs for my youngest son has been in my car for a month now. A more Well Put Together mom would have brought it in the same day, folded what... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail This is my seventh year since staring Being in Community that I have shared my Great Lent reading list, and it has become one of my most popular posts. This year’s list includes some older books... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail I have a delicious fall/winter book stack, I must say, and I’m glad I have the opportunity to share it with you! Many of these books also serve as wonderful holiday gifts, so consider this my... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail My family and I have rearranged our lives in such a way to make it possible for us to participate in every Holy Week service. We did so in part because we knew how exhausting it... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail The Great Lent is almost here, and with it the opportunity to spend more time on growing our spiritual lives. Lent is for making room for more prayer, more Scripture reading, and more spiritual reading. Whatever... Read More

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