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Phoebe Farag Mikhail

Phoebe Farag Mikhail is the author of Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church, has contributed to the anthology Darkness is as Light and to the essay collection Many Women Were Also There: The Participation of Orthodox Women in the Ecumenical Movement. Her writing has also appeared in Plough, Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Talking Writing Magazine. She blogs at Being in Community, where she also features guest posts from a diversity of contributors. She’s on Instagram and Twitter at @pkfarag. She currently serves at St. Antonious & St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church in East Rutherford, NJ with her husband and three children while attending seminary classes at Pope Shenouda III Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.