Hidden Lives Podcast

Elissa Bjeletich is the author of "Blueprints for the Little Church" and hosts three popular Ancient Faith Radio Podcasts, among them, “Everyday Orthodox.” Our conversation has several deep topics, among them the loss of children, divorce, and suffering. Through Elissa’s vulnerability and strength of character, we gain insight into how we might ourselves cope with our own losses and turn to God for comfort.

Steven Christoforou is a brilliant individual. Having practiced law before entering seminary, he now he serves as the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He is the creator of the "Be the Bee" YouTube series as well as the co-host of the Pop Culture Coffee Hour Podcast.

Hope Evans is registered nurse living in the big sky state of Montana. Home to mountains, bears, and Glacier National Park. We explore her journey to Orthodoxy, her medical volunteer efforts in Honduras and Ethiopia, and how she has been responding as a resident nurse in the development of the corona virus pandemic.

Fr. Panteleimon Papadopoulos is a man who served as the deacon to His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America for 17 years. Not only is he now a priest, but he is a husband, and father. He shares with us his earlier joys and struggles as an ordained man with a family, the influence his wife had and continues to have in supporting his ministry, and his role now as a parish priest.