When God Made You by Jane G. Meyer, illustrations by Megan Elizabeth Gilbert (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2015)

From God to You: The Icon’s Journey to Your Heart, part one, by John Kosmas Skinas (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2014)

From God to You: The Icon’s Journey to Your Heart, part two, by John Kosmas Skinas (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2014)

From God to You: The Icon’s Journey to Your Heart, part three, by John Kosmas Skinas (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2014)

From God to You: The Icon’s Journey to Your Heart, conclusion, by John Kosmas Skinas (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2014)

Be Yourself: Amim’s Great Discovery, written by Stephen Muse, illustrated by Dimitra Psychogiou (Saint Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2016).

Welcoming the Christ Child: Family Readings for the Nativity Lent, "Ruth’s Story and The Young Prophet Samuel," by Elissa Bjeletich, illustrated by Jelena Jeftic (Sebastian Press, 2017).

Welcoming the Christ Child: Family Readings for the Nativity Lent, "The Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace and The Prophet Daniel in the Lion’s Den," by Elissa Bjeletich, illustrated by Jelena Jeftic (Sebastian Press, 2017).

23. Book 1: The Life of Saint Nina, Equal-to-the-Apostles by Nina Seco (St. Nectarios Press, 1991) Book 2: From I-Ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part 1 (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

24. From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part two (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

25. Book 1: The Holy Monks of Mount Athos by Patrikia (St. Nectarios Press, 2003) Book 2:From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part three (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

26. Book 1: You are Special by Max Lucado (Crossway Books, 2002). Copyright© Used with permission by Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Il 60187 Book 2: From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part four (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

27. Book 1: Your Special Gift by Max Lucado (Crossway Books, 2006). Copyright© Used with permission by Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187 Book 2: From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou part five (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

28. Book 1: Before You Were Born by Nancy White Carlstrom (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2002) Copyright© Used with permission from the author and Curtis Brown Ltd. Book 2: From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part six (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

29. Book 1: Letters from Heaven: An Illuminated Alphabet by Susan Kelly von Medicus with poems by Ginny Eliason Silva part one (Conciliar Press, 2000) Book 2: From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part seven (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

30. Book 1: Letters from Heaven: An Illuminated Alphabet by Susan Kelly von Medicus with poems by Ginny Eliason Silva, part two, recorded 10/30/07 (Conciliar Press, 2000) Book 2:From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, part eight and final installment (Uncut Mountain Press, 2006)

Fr. Ted reminds us that partaking of the Eucharist is the true climax of Pascha.

Fr. Ted reminds us that the best thing we can do to help the youth is to be an example.

Fr. Ted speaks at the Biennial Clergy-Laity Conference for the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Canada in Vancouver.

Fr. Ted explains that finding your calling is a process of discovering who you truly are—who God made you to be.

Fr. Ted explains why we celebrate saints on the days of their deaths.

Everything we do that has spiritual meaning should happen within the Church.

Are you tending the garden of your life so that it produces the fruit of the Spirit?

Fr. Ted challenges two lies that we are taught growing up about being a Christian, and offers us a different way of living our faith in Jesus.

Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos addressed the first inaugural Youth Night at St. Savas Serbian Orthodox Church in Toronto, Canada, on the topic of “Connecting To Our Roots.”

Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos calls us to take up our cross and actively follow Christ through the second half of Great Lent.

Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos calls us to endure the struggles of life during Holy Week in order to see Christ's glorious resurrection.

A common dillemma for inquirers into the Orthodox Church is either disinterest or outright hostility to the idea of Orthodoxy by their spouse. In this edition Kevin speaks with a couple who lived this scenario. Meet Bruce and Lynn Marie Heying and learn about their family dynamic and what made Lynn Marie decide to follow Bruce into Orthodoxy seven years later.

On this encore program from 2008, Kevin speaks with Fr. Jonathon Ivanoff, Secretary of the Department of Evangelization of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) about the "life cycle" of parishes and how to know whether your parish is thriving, dying or dead on the vine -- and what can be done about it!

Bishop Alexander of the Bulgarian Diocese of the OCA gave the Second Annual Meyendorff Lecture at SVOTS on September 14, 2014. The title of his lecture was "Force Your Mind to Descend into the Heart: Some Resemblances between Byzantine Hesychasm and Merkavah Mysticism."

Inspired by Fr. Thomas Hopko's "55 Maxims" Molly reflects on the practical aspects of prayer when you are at a loss for words.

Loving our family as Christ loves our family gives us a tangible way to respond to hatred with love, to intolerance with compassion, to despair with hope, and to rashness and instability with steadfastness and self-control.

Today's episode is taken from Molly's piece as a guest blog on The Orthodox Mama. With her eyes on the saints and years of raising her four children, Molly offers three big lessons she's learned about motherhood.

Steve discusses his struggle with his recent diagnosis with cancer while caregiving his dying parents. He takes an honest, hard look at the common sayings and spiritual counsels often given to people who are suffering.

Fr. Stephen De Young joins Fr. Evan to answer listener questions about fasting, evangelism, and the Atonement.

Dn. Theodore, the Director of Community of St. John the Compassionate Mission, reminds us that our relationship with God needs to be simpler and a lot more trusting.

Listen to excerpts from this past Sunday's bulletin at St. John the Compassionate Mission, serving the most vulnerable in Toronto.

Another story written by Brother Luke of St. John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto.

Reflections written by Fr. Nicolaie.

A community member and Father Nicolaie each reflect on their experience with an aspect of the Gospel story of the young man who was possessed.

look in the direction you want to move, open and close your mouth to go faster #

Recently I heard a very dark and serious song about the judgment of God and His wrath against sinners. It was the folk song “Great God Almighty’s Gonna Cut You Down” (accessed here). I was not aware of the song before; apparently it is an American folk song. The oracular Wikipedia informs me that it was first recorded by the Golden Gate Quartet in 1946 and issued in 1947 by the Jubalairies, and since then has been covered by a variety of singers in country, folk, electronic, and black metal genres, including such singers as Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, and Elvis Presley. It takes some imagination to contemplate someone singing both about blue suede shoes and the wrath of God, but that’s America for you.

I forget, in the course of my long life as a Christian, how many times I have heard people assure me that “God will never give you more than you can handle”. By this they seemed to mean that God knows my emotional limits and capabilities, and will make sure that no disaster befalls me that will tax me emotionally beyond my present strength. Sometimes they affix a Bible verse from 1 Corinthians 10:13 to it to make their case: “No temptation has overtaken you but such is common to man, and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it”. I must report however, on the basis of my long life as a Christian, that the assuring notion that God will never give anyone more than they can handle is nonsense.

All of the words of the Saviour are important, even the words spoken that were strictly rhetorical. One such utterance is found in the story of the sinful woman, told in Luke 7:36f.

Fr. Apostolos Hill addresses the joy of the many gifts Jesus gives us and how to combat our forgetfulness in sometimes taking them for granted.