2021 FSMB Conference: Online

Join us this weekend, October 8-9, for our 28th annual conference! We will be gathering online for the second year, so there's no need to travel and it's not too late. Registration only costs $25.

This year we are using an all-in-one conference website that will allow us to listen to the talks as well as participate in breakout sessions, workshops, and informal fellowship together.

The conference begins on Friday at 5:30pm Eastern time with an Akathist prayer and the first talks, and continues through Saturday.

May 13, 2021

Exodus: A Mourning Song

For Bishop Athanasios Amos Akunda (1971-1/4/2019) and read out at his grave. Presvytera Elizabeth Tervo What song shall I sing for your Exodus, my friend since you went out from among us? You went out from laughter to tears and the wrinkles from smiling are all smoothed out now. You left the tribes and the …

April 23, 2021

Two Trials, Two Tombs

Like many Americans I followed the high-profile trial from the opening statements through the historic verdict. There were certainly many hopes and fears riding on it that were far greater than the specific incident, decedent, or defendant. George Floyd’s death flashed into global consciousness as a symbol, not as an incident. His tomb represents everything …

January 15, 2021

Invitation to the new FSMB Women’s Prayer Group

For many years our sisters in the Lord within the Fellowship have been asking what avenues of ministry are open to them as women in the Church. Responding to that question and the urgent need for spiritual upliftment in these times, Mother Katherine and the Fellowship of St. Moses the Black are starting a Women’s Prayer Group.

January 5, 2021

In the emergency room with God

Hear ye. Hear ye.

Beware of making self challenges after listening to inspiring podcasts.

... and the rest of the story. ...

October 14, 2020

2020 Conference: Sparks amongst the stubble, those on the margins

Through his own personal story, as well as through lessons, stories, and data from READI Chicago, Eddie Bocanegra explains the effectiveness of dealing with the trauma of gun violence through cognitive behavioral therapy and city, state, and national collaboration. Personal story I’m Eddie Bocanegra. I run READI Chicago, one of the largest violence prevention programs …

October 14, 2020

2020 Conference: The vision of deeper roots of Orthodoxy in America: On Bended Knee

By FSMB Board Member Hieromonk Alexii Altschul of Holy Archangel Michael Skete in Missouri. This talk is based on a key principle I learned when I was doing trauma therapy in the nineties and first decade of this century. Trauma unexamined tends to be trauma reenacted. Let us call to mind the Word of the …

October 14, 2020

2020 Conference: What color are your eyes?

By Fr. Turbo Qualls, FSMB Spiritual Formation Chair and priest at St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church in Kansas City, MO. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! My brothers and sisters, I greet you on this landmark day of our 27th Annual Conference… and although we are unfortunately not …

October 13, 2020

2020 Conference: Racism and Its Grounding in Shame and Disgust

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, pastor of St. Anne Orthodox Church in Oak Ridge, TN. “For there is a shame that brings sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.” (Sirach 4:21) There is a popular definition of shame that describes it as “how we feel about who we are.” Along with this …

October 13, 2020

2020 Conference: The Impact of Education Innovation in Grades K-12 for Communities of Color

Presented by Gregory M. Weston, Trustee of Democracy Prep New York Schools The Challenge Communities of Color (COC) in the U.S. are challenged today as never before. The disparate impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on Communities of Color have laid bare the existing inequities in our healthcare system. Prior to the pandemic chronic health …