I have just ordered my copy of Community of Grace, the story of the Orthodox community associated with St. John's Orthodox Cathedral in Eagle River, Alaska. The author, Mary Alice Cook, is a native East Texan who has lived in that state since 1976. Raised Southern Baptist, she and her family became Orthodox Christians in 1992. Mary Alice occasionally returns to Texas, and on those occasions, visits our mission, about an hour and a half away. Someone noted that this may very well be the first Orthodox book published by an East Texan.
Mary Alice is an interesting person and a great conversationalist. I really look foward to reading what she has to say.
I've heard quite a lot from Portestants about the "new monasticism", si it's refreshing to read something along those lines from the Orthodox.
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