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 This has been a great season for new books, and I’m so excited to highlight a few for bookshelves and gift-giving this year. The first six are children’s books, and the last two are adult books.... 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 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 Today might be St. Valentine’s Day (or another saint, depending on your liturgical calendar–in the Coptic Orthodox Church it is St. Febrianus Day), but if you know anything about love, you know that it is not... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail Art. Intrigue. War. An underground trade on the black market. Spies. Police. Politics. Religion. Family. Love. All of these can be found in Tasoula Hadjitofi’s memoir, The Icon Hunter: A Refugee’s Quest to Reclaim Her Nation’s... 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