SELECT ARTICLES
“An Orthodox Christian Theological Ethic of Childbearing: An Analysis of Continuity and Change” in Orthodox Bioethics (tentative), Project Science and Orthodoxy around the World, forthcoming 2024.
“Women and Orthodox Conciliar Practices” and “Practices of Synodality in the Composition of For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church,” Listening to the East: Synodality in Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church Traditions, edited by Institute for Ecumenical Studies of the Angelisum, Pro Oriente Foundation (Rome: Liberia Editrice Vaticana, 2023.
“A Pilgrim’s Account of Spruce Island,” The Wheel, Issue 31/32, 2023.
“Purifying the Churching Prayers: Reconciling the Post-Childbirth Prayers with the Church’s Theology,” Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity, edited by Thomas Arentzen, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, and Ashley Purpura (Wipf & Stock, 2023).
“The Status of the Reinstitution of Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church Today: Consecrated in Africa, Considered Elsewhere,” Ecumenical Trends, 51.3 May/June 2022, 7-11.
“Christians First,” Commonweal, March 16, 2022. On nationalism, identity, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Newness under the Son,” Public Orthodoxy, December 23, 2021.
“Matters of Birth and Death in the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Russian Orthodox Church’s Social Statements.” Studies in Christian Ethics, Special Issue: A Fresh Vision for Orthodox Social Ethics: Responses to For the Life of the World (2021) 1–15.
“Co-Laborer Organizations,” Pilgrims Toward the Kingdom: The Beginnings of the International Orthodox Theological Association, IOTA Publications, 2020.
“The Orthodox Church and Its Social Ethos: The Aims and Accomplishments of For the Life of the World,” Ecumenical Trends, vol. 49, no. 5, Sept/Oct 2020, pp. 5.
“A Flourishing Diaconate Will Ground—Not Predetermine—Conversation about the Women in the Priesthood,” Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church – Explorations in Theology and Practice, edited by Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2020).
Commission Member of For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2020.)
“Maternal Body: Incarnational Theology Through a Maternal Lens,” Public Orthodoxy, August 14, 2019.
“Pro-Life Liturgy,” First Things, April 2019, p. 27-30.
“Making Church History in Romania,” Public Orthodoxy, January 31, 2019.
“Towards a Reasoned and Respectful Conversation about Deaconesses,” Public Orthodoxy, April 17, 2018.
With co-authors from the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess Board: AnnMarie Mecera, President; Caren Stayer, Ph.D.; Gust Mecera; Teva Regule, Ph.D.; Helen Theodoropoulos, Ph.D.
“Women and the Conciliar Life of the Church,” The Reception of the Holy and Great Council: Reflections of Orthodox Christian Women, ed. Carrie Frederick Frost, Faith Matters Series, Vol. 4., Department of Inter-Orthodox Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, 2018. .
“Women’s Gifts and the Diaconate,” Public Orthodoxy, March 6, 2018.
“A Relationship to be Emulated: The Maternal Kinship Between the Mother of God and Her Cousin Elizabeth,” Praxis Magazine, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Department of Religious Education, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2018.
“Not a Novelty: The Eastern Orthodox Case for Deaconesses,” Commonweal, June 2, 2017.
“Orthodox Christianity: Offering Material Piety to Twenty-first Century America,” Public Orthodoxy, May 17, 2017.
“Childbirth is a Blessing, Not an Occasion for Impurity,” Public Orthodoxy, April 26, 2017.
“Women Deacons in Africa; Not in America,” Public Orthodoxy, March 2, 2017.
“Women Willing to Offer Themselves: The Historic Consecration of Deaconesses in Africa,” The Wheel, March 2, 2017.
“A Postpartum Portrait: The Mother of God in Icons of the Nativity of Her Son,” Orthodoxy and the Sacred Arts, Sophia Studies in Orthodox Theology, vol. 10, 2016.
“‘Let Them Come Unto Us’: Rearing Children Within an Eastern Orthodox Marriage Tradition,” Family Wellness Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco, July 4, 2016.
“The Power of a Mother’s Prayer,” Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Blog, July 1, 2016.
“Pentecost on Crete?” Commonweal, May 24, 2016.
“A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break,” Family Wellness Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco, June 20, 2016.
“In Hope of Restoration of Communion Between the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches,” Public Orthodoxy, Orthodox Theological Society in America Special Project on the Holy and Great Orthodox Council, May 2016, with co-authors Vigen Guroian, Valerie Zahirsky, and Jennifer Haddad Mosher.
“Women and the Great and Holy Orthodox Council,” Public Orthodoxy, Orthodox Theological Society in America Special Project on the Holy and Great Orthodox Council, April 1, 2016, with co-authors Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Teva Regule, Alexandra Lobas Safchuk, and Gayle E. Woloschak.
“Churching: The Orthodox Rite of Churching the Mother and Child After Childbirth,” Saint Phoebe Center for the Deaconess, April 2016.
“The Sacrament of Love,” Commonweal, February 10, 2016.
“The Need for Liturgical Rites for Miscarriage and Infant Death,” Orthodox Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion, Winter 2016.
“I must watch over you”: The virtue of familial responsibility, The Clarion Review, December 2013.
“Purify Her Uncleanness,” First Things Online, December 2012.
“Under Her Heart: Motherhood in Kristin Lavransdatter,” First Things Online, January 2011.
“Searching for Mothers in the Fathers,” Sophia, Sophia Studies in Orthodox Theology, vol. 1, 2009.
“Brood Comments,” Salvo, Winter 2009.
“Easter in Technicolor,” Commonweal, April 2007.