Today is the Feast of Transfiguration in the Orthodox Church. (Read about this feast at the icon here.) I went…
My friend Dr. Joanna Seibert invited me to contribute a guest post to her beautiful blog, “Daily Something.” She’s doing…
This is my third in a Lenten series in which I’m reflecting on Nicole Roccas’s book Time and Despondency: Regaining…
This past weekend I was blessed to participate in a pre-Lenten retreat at St. John Orthodox Church, my parish here…
A few months ago I was invited to write a guest blog post for Charli Riggle’s blog, which features…
When I was in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday (my husband had a medical meeting there) I stopped in at…
Thirty years ago today, my husband, Dr. William/Father Basil Cushman, was ordained into the priesthood of the Orthodox Christian Church,…
Last Sunday Father Philip Rogers, Assistant Pastor at St. John Orthodox Church in Memphis, gave a wonderful homily. It was…
A few days ago I received a Facebook message from someone I haven’t seen in about 40 years. She had…
Today is Holy Friday in the Orthodox Church. But instead of writing about the wonderful services and traditions I’m participating…