Weekly Family Meditations

Kristina Wenger and Elissa Bjeletich Davis bring you short weekly lessons on Scriptures, Saints’ lives and Orthodox themes, tailored for families.

Each meditation ends with a few questions for your family to discuss, to help you explore the faith together in your household.

For information on the Tending the Garden universe, visit us at tending-the-garden.com.

Orthodox Film Club

I'm putting together a list of great Orthodox films to watch and to support. Please check it out, and let me know what films I should add. You're invited to submit your own reviews as well.

Raising Saints -Educating Our Youth in the Orthodox Faith, Both at Home and in the Parish
This podcast hopes to equip adults to share the faith with children, shaping the way in which our youth understand their lives. This podcast is for parents, grandparents, and godparents, for Sunday School teachers and for those working in the Youth Ministries—for anyone interested in shepherding our youth along the path to God.

Everyday Orthodox - Connecting the Body of Christ Through Conversation
We’ll be sharing the personal stories of everyday Orthodox people—from the movers and shakers to the prosphora bakers! The Church is a community of human beings with unique personal narratives and perspectives, and the more we understand and appreciate one another, the better unified our community can be.

Dear Parents, You’re Not Alone - Trials and Triumphs from the Trenches
Parenting is a sacred calling—and a tough one, too! Christian Gonzalez and Elissa Bjeletich Davis come together to talk about the highs and lows and ins and outs of raising kids in the Orthodox Church. If you’re feeling alone in the struggle, join them and find out that we’re all struggling together.

Light Streams In - Seeing the Sacred in Our Everyday World
The Kingdom of Heaven is everywhere around us, but we must develop eyes to see it. Journey together through these modern days with host Elissa Bjeletich Davis and begin helping one another to let Christ’s light stream in, to shine through all of His creation.

I’ve been a guest on other people’s podcasts, and you can still find some of those online:

Center for Family Care: Fully Human
Brews, Beards, & Shipwrecks 2019
Brews, Beards, & Shipwrecks 2023
Hidden Lives
BYU Radio

Ancient Faith Blogs is a thing of the past,
but here are the best posts from Raising Saints .

The curriculum resources that lived at Raising Saints (Holy Friday retreats and the like) are also right here.

Here are my favorite posts:
Thoughts on Theophany & Revelation
Contemplating the Incarnation
Of Grave Blankets and Prayer for the Dead
All-American Slava
The Monastery in Our Hearts
Grab Your Pitchforks
Prosphora & Theosis

You’ll find me on various blogs and websites:

Axia Women
Antiochian.org
Pravmir
Time Eternal

I put together a course on Orthodox Women Saints that you’re welcome to use or p
ruse.

Tending the Garden of Our Hearts, we’ve produced an online Sunday School (with videos and printouts) as well as an online VCC program you could do via zoom or in person.

I’ve written some Holy Friday retreats you might like to use in your own parish.