Posts tagged with: joy

Testing the Limits of Forgiveness and Getting to the Other Side – with three book giveaways!

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Forgiveness, reconciliation and love are the features of three books I’ve read this year: The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach, From Read Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and... Read More

Turn it Around

Today I’m happy to share the third guest post in my guest blog series on the seven practices I write about in my new book, Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church, published by Paraclete... Read More

Joy in Sickness

Today I’m happy to share the second guest post in my guest blog series on the seven practices I write about in my new book, Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church, published... Read More

An Hour in A Few Minutes

Today I am excited to being a new guest blog series on the seven practices I write about in my new book, Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church, published by Paraclete Press... Read More

It’s not just a building. Joy lies in its wake

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail As I sat down to write about the launch day of my new book, Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church, my mind couldn’t shake the images of the... Read More

Announcing my new book, Putting Joy into Practice!

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

The stories all our children need to read (Summer Reading Recommendations #2 & 3)

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail Read until the end to find out how to receive your FREE guide to helping children love reading, and be entered to win a giveaway copy of Philo, Rose, and the Joy SuperHoly or Trouble at... Read More

The Book to Start Your Summer (Summer Reading Recommendation #1)

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail Read till the end to find out how to win a giveaway copy with a SIGNED BOOKPLATE of Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam! I have not stopped talking about Laura Vanderkam’s new book Off the... Read More

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail Today marks the passing of the Very Reverend Fr. Youhanna Guirgis, a spiritual giant and a pillar of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States of America. To explain his larger than life influence on... Read More

Where is God’s love when it hurts?

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Last Wednesday I finished a Valentine craft with my children, reading to them verses about God’s unconditional love for them. Yesterday I had a heart to heart talk with my daughter in the car about why... Read More