Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Maria Khoury, a children's author and humanitarian living in Taybeh, Palestine. Dr. Khoury was recently recognized by the DC Human Rights Examiner as one of the top four human-rights champions of 2009. She is also the author of a new book titled Meet the Evangelists.

Bobby Maddex checks in with Andy Lekos of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center about a recent OCMC mission trip to Kenya. The two also talk about other upcoming missions opportunities.

John talks with composer Nicholas Reeves about a coming concert in New York City to honor the work of composers who were banned or controversial due to their connection with or influence from the Orthodox Church under Communist oppression. The concert and lectures are entitled "Devotion: The Triumph of Orthodox Music Over Oppression." More information about tickets for this May 8 event is available HERE. Or you can call 646-450-4077.

Bobby Maddex interviews Dan Koski, the Public Relations Officer for Holy Land Trust, an organization that is working to promote nonviolence as the only solution for peaceful coexistence between Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and secular communities in the Holy Land.

A conversation with Dr. Marcus Plested, Academic Director of The Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. Learn about the summer studies program and consider participating July 18-23 with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Fr. Andrew Louth, and others.

Bobby Maddex interviews Kenneth Kidd, the Annual Gifts Officer for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), about OCMC's Agape Canister Program.

Bobby Maddex interviews Paul Karos, who will be leading a retreat titled "The Passions That Drive Us; the Virtues That Save Us" from June 11-13 at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Bobby Maddex interviews Mark Ohanian, International Programs Coordinator for International Orthodox Christian Christies (IOCC), about IOCC's ongoing relief effort in Haiti.

John Maddex talks with Daria Petrykowski of the Department of Christian Education at the Orthodox Church in America about an important parish ministries conference the end of June. The dates are June 27-30 and speakers include Metropolitan Jonah, Fr. John Behr, David Drillock, Bishop Melchizedek and many others. For more information, click HERE.

In our continuing effort to keep you informed about the recent and on going work of our Hierarchs to bring about administrative unity, we present an extensive interview with Fr. Mark Arey. The discussion centers on the first Episcopal Assembly meeting in New York on May 26-28, 2010. You will hear first hand what took place behind the closed doors of the Assembly and how it impacts all of us for the future. Fr. Mark is the current General Secretary of SCOBA (the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America) and was the initial Secretary of the Assembly in New York. He was one of very few non-Bishops in the meetings.

AFR correspondent Matthew Namee talks with His Grace Bishop Basil, the newly elected Secretary of the Episcopal Assemblies. We learn of his impressions of the historic May 26-28 gathering in New York as well as the assignment he has been given to coordinate the work of the committees that will be formed leading up eventually to a Great and Holy Council.

An interview with Professor David Frost from the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. Hear about some programs you can take advantage of even if you don't live in the UK!

Bobby Maddex interviews Mark Gruin, the Haiti Field Program Specialist at International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), about the ongoing needs of the Haitian people.

Bobby Maddex interviews Paul Grenier, the translator of Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography by Irina Yazykova.

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Martin Swanson, Dean of The Orthodox Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

Bobby Maddex interviews Kenneth Kidd, the Annual Gifts Officer for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (or OCMC), about the ways in which we can all help support missions work in the upcoming new church year.

Bobby Maddex interviews Gerald Largent, the executive director of St. Panteleimon Orthodox Christian Outreach, a relatively new pan-Orthodox ministry geared toward those living in nursing and/or group homes.

The International Orthodox Christian Studies program in the United Kingdom is launching a new DVD-based course for parishes to use in evangelism. John Maddex talks with organizer Dr. Christine Mangala Frost about The Way.

Bobby Maddex interviews Patricia Colling Egan, author of the new Conciliar Press book A Book of Hours: Meditations on the Traditional Christian Hours of Prayer.

Archpriest Gregory Hallam who publishes his sermons here on the Voice from the Isles podcast also hosts on the UK Antiochian Deanery website a three-year diploma in Orthodox theology. The course has the bishop’s blessing, and a distance learning option is available. Fr. Gregory offers this taster podcast from the third year, Lecture 61. If you are interested in this course please visit this web page for details:- http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk/e-quip.htm

Bobby Maddex interviews Robert and Ian Taylor, the Eastern Orthodox musicians behind the rock band The Sunshine Factory.

John Maddex talks with Fr. Wilbur Ellsworth about his brand new podcast Let My Prayer Arise which just began on AFR.

Subdeacon Alex Younes, a professor at the Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy and the director of Antiochian Orthodox Camps in Canada, speaks on Youth Sunday at St. Demetrios Orthodox Church in Winnipeg, Canada.

John Maddex interviews Fr. Matthew Williams about the cholera outbreak in Haiti and the work of the Orthodox Mission there.

Bobby Maddex interviews Frederica Mathewes-Green about her upcoming trip to Russia with Orthodox Tours. Learn how you can join her and her husband Fr. Gregory as they visit some of Russia's holiest and most awe-inspiring sites.

Bobby Maddex interviews Aleksei V. Shipovalnikov, the director of The Spirit of Orthodoxy Choir.

Bobby Maddex interviews Veronica Hughes, the author of The Pearl of Great Price: The Journey of a New Age Seeker to the Light of Christ and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary is announcing the visit and surrounding activities of Met. Hilarion Alfeyev Feb 5 - 7. He will give a lecture on Saturday, Feb 5 at the Seminary as this year's speaker at the Fr. Alexander Schmemann Lecture Series. His choral masterpiece St. Matthew's Passion will be performed on Monday Feb 7 at 7:30 PM at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York. John Maddex talks with Fr. Chad Hatfield and concert producer Nicholas Reeves about the events. AFR will be there to record the lecture!

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Lawrence Farley, pastor of Saint Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in British Columbia, the host of the AFR podcast Coffee Cup Commentaries, and the author of The Gospel of Luke: Good News for the Poor, published by Conciliar Press.

A talk by Linda Couri, a former Planned Parenthood employee who has both professional and personal experience with abortion issues, will be presenting an inside perspective on the pro-choice mindset. What are the values, goals, and motivations behind those who are pro-choice and what can we do to best address this complex and often hostile audience? Linda, who now serves as Associate Director of Lay Ministry Formation for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, will share her story and her own uncomfortable yet solid reconversion to the Christian faith. This talk was given at the 3rd annual Sanctity of Life Sunday presentation of the Orthodox Christian Clergy Association of Greater Chicago on January 30, 2011.

Dr. Brad Nassif is our guest to talk about an opportunity to hear Met. Kallistos Ware at North Park University in Chicago February 22-23.

Bobby Maddex interviews Thomas Ruthford, author of Heaven Help the Single Christian: Your (Practical) Guide to Navigating Church as You Search for a Godly Mate, published by Regina Orthodox Press.

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Roberto Ubertino, the executive director of St. John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto, Ontario, and Dn. Pawel Mucha, the prefect of the mission's Lived Theology School.

In this episode of Ancient Faith Presents, we speak with Harriet Stratis, the Treasurer of Friends of the Hogar, about a recently released CD featuring hymns sung by the children of the Hogar Rafael Ayau orphanage.

Bobby Maddex interviews renowned priest, blogger, and now author Fr. Stephen Freeman about his new book Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, published by Conciliar Press.

The Hogar Rafael Ayau Orthodox Orphanage in Guatemala City, Guatemala, needs your assistance. Here Bobby Maddex talks with Mother Abbess Ines about the increasingly desperate situation in which the orphanage finds itself. Click here to learn more about the Hogar, and click here to find out how you can help.

On a new Ancient Faith Presents, Bobby Maddex interviews Vigen Guroian, author of The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key, published by Eerdmans Publishing.

Angela Hays, the woman behind the new second edition of Taste and See: An American Orthodox Cookbook, needs your recipes. Bobby Maddex talks to her about this and more on a new Ancient Faith Presents.

Bobby Maddex interviews Christiana Thanos, the producer of Lucky Girls, a documentary film about the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Girls' Orphanage in Calcutta, India, and the coordinator of a campaign to raise $4,000 during the 40 days of Lent for this same orphanage.

Miho Ealy, a Japanese Orthodox Christian, talks to us from Japan about life after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Bobby Maddex interviews Chaplain Patrick Tutella, the Executive Director of Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM), about OCPM's 2011 Convocation in Toronto, Canada.

We talk with Claire Brandenburg, Manager of the Heavenly Ladder Bookstore in Taos, New Mexico, about a new CD featuring the writings of Archpriest Sergius of Kasimov.

Bobby Maddex interviews Cynthia Damaskos, the director of the Orthodox Speakers Bureau.

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Charles Joanides and Presv. Kerry Pappas, the leaders of the Orthodox Clergy Couples Retreat, which will take place May 22-24 at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Bobby Maddex interviews Katherine Johnson, the creator of Ages of Grace, a new homeschooling curriculum that aims to provide an authentically Orthodox Christian education.

Bobby Maddex interviews David and Mangala Frost of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS) about a new IOCS Orthodox evangelism tool called The Way, now available in the United States exclusively through Conciliar Press.

Ancient Faith Radio presents an interview with Georgia Williams, one of the founders and an administrator of the Russian Orphan Opportunity Fund (ROOF), about this important organization's needs and ministry opportunities.

John Maddex talks with Alexei Krindatch, Research Consultant to the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in America, about a brand new publication that will serve as a valuable handbook in every parish library. Click on the attachment link to see a sample. It is currently available from Holy Cross Bookstore in Brookline, MA, by calling 800 245-0599.

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Lawrence Russell, priest at Church of the Annunciation in Santa Maria, California, about a truly remarkable Orthodox ministry, located in Adwa, Ethiopia, and the even more remarkable woman who started it.

Chaplain Patrick Tutella. the Executive Director of Orthodox Christian Prison Ministries (OCPM), and Kory Warr, OCPM's Chairman of the Board, talk about Prison Ministry Awareness Sunday, which takes place every year on the sixth Sunday of Pascha.