Conciliar Media Ministries
The Antiochian Archdiocese places a high priority on outreach and communication through a variety of mediums. This is particularly demonstrated by Conciliar Media Ministries, which encompasses both Conciliar Press and Ancient Faith Radio, an online streaming radio station. Conciliar Press has been a witness of Orthodox Christianity in the English-speaking world for over thirty years. The popular Orthodox Study Bible, now with both the Old and New Testaments, is also a publication of Conciliar Press. To learn more, or to place an order, visit their website at www.conciliarpress.com. Ancient Faith Radio broadcasts both Orthodox music and talk in two separate streams twenty-four hours a day. To listen, or for more information about their podcasts or program schedule, visit their website at www.ancientfaith.com.
Sale on Back Issues of AGAIN and The Handmaiden
Conciliar Press announces an outstanding sale on all available back issues of AGAIN Magazine and The Handmaiden Magazine. The publications are arranged in groups and are sold as Library Packs at 75% off the original cover price. Both magazines are a great and timeless resource of Orthodox spirituality, and contain content by some of the best Orthodox writers and editors over the last 25 years. It is the hope of Conciliar Press, that this sale will help get the magazines into the hands of all those who loved and enjoyed them over the years and will help to preserve the rich heritage and legacy of the publications.
Ancient Faith Radio Launches Improved Web Site
Ancient Faith Radio is proud to announce the launch of its new web site. The improved site features better organized content with a new top navigation, better search capability and a simplified site design. AFR hopes that users will find the new site easier to use and a daily resource for the very best in Orthodox Christian music, talk readings and teaching.
Additional new features include:
- Convenient updates showing recent podcasts and daily resources
- Podcasts and Specials displayed side by side, with convenient sliders for navigation
Ancient Faith Radio Special: Unraveling Chambesy - Administrative Unity In Our Time
From Ancient Faith Radio: Our canons call for there to be one bishop in one place but here in America as well as other countries of the so called “diaspora” immigration and pastoral concerns have served to violate those canons. To address this issue, the leaders and representatives of all of the autocephalous Mother Churches were convened by HIs All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew first in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) and later in Chambesy, Geneva, Switzerland to commission certain Episcopal Assemblies who will in turn develop regional plans to correct this anomaly.
Writing "The Hermit, The Icon and The Emperor"
by Chrissi Hart
I never dreamed that Conciliar Press would be interested in another book after accepting Under the Grapevine for publication, but I optimistically set out to write The Hermit, The Icon and The Emperor: The Holy Virgin Comes to Cyprus.
When I traveled to London, England in May 2005, my mother handed me a framed paper icon of the Eleousa of Kykkos and said, “Would you like to take this back with you?” Would I? Of course I would! This planted the seed for my story.
She didn’t know that I was already planning my second picture book about this sacred icon that is housed at the Holy Monastery of Kykkos, one of the most significant spiritual centers in Cyprus. I felt that God was sending me an affirmation to write this story.
When I returned to the US, I plucked the Handbook of Kykkos Monastery from my bookshelf that I had purchased on my pilgrimage in 2000, and began my research on this thousand-year-old legend of The Royal and Holy Stavropegic Monastery of Kykkos. The Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos founded the monastery in the eleventh century when Cyprus was part of the East Roman Empire.
