Every year at our Festival, I give church tours. I enjoy this because the visitors are always awed by the light and color in our church, and they are especially caught by the icons.

Lent is an opportunity to intentionally choose books to companion us in our forty-day journey. Here are a few we've selected to walk with us this Lent:

Faith is abstract. Non-believers joke about the invisible, imaginary friend in the sky. We seem foolish, naive, even dumb. Fools for Christ? I will take it. With children, however, abstractions are incredibly difficult. Like Saint Thomas, they often need something more concrete.

As we journey together into Lent, we are always moved by this prayer, from St. Ephrem the Syrian.

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About a year after our wedding, Anthony and I couldn’t help but notice that, though we’d hoped for children early on, we had yet to conceive. I began to become a little frustrated and concerned that we may be experiencing infertility.

Queen Makeda is remembered every year on September 11th, the Ethiopian New Year.

The day is called Enkutatash, meaning the "gift of jewels," commemorating the return of the Queen from her journey to visit King Solomon, as her chiefs welcomed her back by replenishing her treasury with enku, or jewels. It marks the time when the rains end and is celebrated with three days of prayers, psalms and hymns, and massive, colorful processions.