Hey Folks,
Hope everyone’s week is off to a great start! I wanted to open this newsletter with an invitation:
If you’re a writer, journalist, poet, or anything of the sort, I want to encourage you to reach out to us at [email protected] and share anything you’d like to see in print. This newsletter isn’t just a way to know what events are happening, it’s also a way to be aware of the cool things that each of us is doing.
Every space we inhabit, even those secular spaces, is an opportunity to live our Orthodox faith and share Christ in our actions and the way that we live our lives, and hopefully that’s true of the ways that we express ourselves creatively, as well.
So don’t be shy!
This Friday: YAL Bondfire
This Friday Christina McDonough of Holy Trinity’s Young Adults League is hosting a bonfire and I encourage folks to RSVP! I’ll be attending and hope to meet some of y’all that I haven’t had the opportunity to meet in person. Come hang out!
PSU Choirs present “City of Roses”
Our own Judah will be performing at First Methodist Church on Jefferson this Friday as well at 7:30. You can support his work as a singer and aspiring choir conductor by checking out this show — buy tickets here
Artist Spotlight: Grace Elkhal
This week I’m sharing the Poetry of St. George’s own Grace Elkhal!
Her book, The Sorrows That Bury Us, is a captivating testament that speaks to the grief and loss wrought by the Syrian War. Her prose and poetry challenges readers confront the humanity of people who are subject to political instability and humanitarian crises to this day.
Poetry like this becomes increasingly important in an age when events in global politics are often depersonalized by media interests. We so easily reduce them to talking points and easily forget the reality of the lives caught in the middle. Events like 2025’s Mar Elias attack show us that the global Orthodox Community is called continually to support our Christian brethren in Syria.
You can purchase a copy of The Sorrows That Bury Us here
