Welcome to the Orthodox Church—its history, theology, worship, spirituality, and daily life.This friendly guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Orthodoxy, but with a twist: readers learn by making a series of visits to a fictitious church,...

Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church is an invitation to a life of joy. Phoebe Farag Mikhail explains what joy is and how to experience it through seven spiritual practices that cultivate our inner lives...

A quick bedtime story is not enough to help this little boy fall asleep, for he has a BIG question that needs to be immediately addressed! The presence of beasts and bugs creeping and crawling outside has filled him with fear! The little boy begins to...

My Orthodox Easter Coloring Book is a gentle introduction to the beauty and meaning of Holy Week and Pascha for young children. Through simple, peaceful illustrations and short, child-friendly explanations, this book helps children discover the...

"Remembering and Reclaiming Diakonia: The Diaconate Yesterday and Today" is a text both scholarly and spiritually enriching. It is described by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia, Oxford University as, "exactly is the book that we have long needed...

Examines themes of spiritual direction and pastoral care, including ministry and brokenness, the role of the spiritual director, including the topic of obedience, the misuse of spiritual authority, and child abuse. In the essays, the author courageously...

Patriarch Athenagoras (Spyrou) was the 268th Archbishop of Constantinople, leading the Orthodox Church from 1948 to 1972. A man of peace, reconciliation, and love, Patriarch Athenagoras left an indelible mark on God’s Church wherever he served, as...

"On October 22, 2011, the Orthodox Church celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the election of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the 270th successor of the Apostle Andrew to the See of Constantinople, the First See of the Orthodox...

Papers presented at the Pauline Symposium, October 11-16, 2008 His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew proclaimed 2008 as a year dedicated "in remembrance...of the words and loving works of St. Paul and in celebration of two millennia since...

The articles gathered here draw on multiple disciplines to argue for the restoration of this venerable order . . . As we face the challenges of a rapidly changing world, may the ministry of deacons, both male and female, flourish once again! John H...

Eight visionary men came together to create a fraternal Order and to promote its "objectives and principles: effect a perfect and harmonious understanding between ourselves and others..." Bold words for a group of salesmen who wanted to create an...

Holy Cross Orthodox Press is proud to present Sustaining the Future of Our Planet Together as a unique and necessary title for your bookshelf. This volume is a comprehensive compilation of the contents of the Halki Summit V, held June 2022...