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

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

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail This year, Holy Week for me began with the news of the bombing of several churches in Sri Lanka celebrating Easter (on the Western calendar) and the deaths and injuries of many hundred faithful. Soon after,... Read More

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail Dear teacher: My Wanda will not come to your school anymore. Jake also. Now we move away to big city. No more holler Polack. No more ask why funny name. Plenty of funny names in the... Read More

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail This past Sunday, as I carried my baby and ushered my daughter towards the front of the church to take communion, I could not help but see the image of this little boy in my mind.... Read More