As we come up on the new school and liturgical years, many parishes are choosing the study materials they will use with adult teen groups for the coming year. You can help your church find quality free study materials by sending your priest or church education director this full-color graphic describing two recent studies, Joy [...]
real life, my new series of studies and podcasts with Ancient Faith Radio, has officially launched! real life will feature free studies (with study guides, discussion guides and mp3s) on being transformed through your relationships with God and others. The first unit of the first study-on joy-is now up. Also associated with real life is [...]
I have completed all the resources for the Worship & You study, and am preparing for my next study with Ancient Faith Radio (on joy, which will launch sometime in July 2010). This raises an important question: what would you like to see in future studies? I’m not asking specifically about subjects for studies—although you [...]
Two weeks ago, I posted a request for feedback regarding the usage of my Bible studies for Orthodox Christian teens, and interest in future studies. Below is what I sent to the people who responded to this request for feedback. Based on the feedback I received, I’ve decided the following: To continue creating quizzes on [...]
03/26/10 Update: You can read about the future of my teen Bible studies here. For over 6 ½ years I’ve been producing Bible study materials for Orthodox Christian teens, and for almost 2 ½ years I’ve been producing the Get Wisdom podcast. I’m doing this special episode of Get Wisdom because I need your feedback. [...]
The following was published on the Orthodox Christians for Accountability website: Fr. Oliver Herbel’s post provides important food for thought; as a layperson, my thoughts naturally turn especially to the role of the laity in the system proposed by His Beatitude (which, I should note, is already largely the system in the Diocese of the [...]
In the Worship & You study we are moving into the largest section—you might even say the heart—of the study: focusing on the Divine Liturgy. There are many good resources on the Divine Liturgy, but I’d like to mention just a few that might be of particular interest or use; some are more technical, while [...]
Worship & You, my new multimedia study with Ancient Faith Radio on carrying the transforming power of Orthodox worship into daily life, starts today! I currently have all the resources for study unit 1 on the site, and will be adding a new unit each week (and will posting the resources for that unit throughout [...]
Do you want to deepen your worship of God, and take the transforming power of that experience with you into your daily life? If so, you’ll want to participate in WORSHIP & YOU, my upcoming multimedia study for Orthodox Christian adults and teens from Ancient Faith Radio. WORSHIP & YOU will focus on the main [...]
Related to my earlier article on building up an easy-to-use library of Orthodox quotes, I would be happy to email you a “starter collection” of quotes in a Jreepad file. The collection is pretty small—I used Jreepad for only a short while before switching to DEVONnote (and then DEVONthink)—but it would help you get started [...]
