The Orthodox Christian Network is proud to announce that Dynamis Daily Devotional readings will now be a daily feature on the OCN Website.

Congratulations to Peter and Helen Evans on being accepted by the Orthodox Speakers Bureau. Peter and Helen's profile on the Orthodox Speakers Bureau can be viewed here: http://www.orthodoxspeakers.com/peter-and-helen-evans/

Way to go Peter and Helen!

[YONKERS, NY] Renowned liturgist The Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, S.J. will present the keynote address at an international academic symposium titled “The Past and Future of Liturgical Theology: Celebrating the Legacy of Father Alexander Schmemann,”  to be held at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVS), from January 29–31, 2009.

Orthodox Biz was launched one year ago. In celebration of our first anniversary, we did what all good Web designers do to mark major milestones. We tore the site apart and rebuilt it from scratch. The new Orthodox Biz 2.0 is now ready for its official unveiling, and we invite you all to read more about the next generation of Orthodox site.

In the afternath of the last election, Peter and Helen Evans, the authors of the upcoming book, Get Serious: The Church's Stand on Contemporary Culture, have announced a new talk - Whatever Happened to the Land of the Free and What Can We Do About it. A video promo for the talk is available below.

Check out our New Releases section for The Orthodox Bookstore. This section features 22 newly released or forthcoming titles with up to 25% off retail prices. Most of these items will be on a pre-order basis until they are released in December. However, for those limited items/quantities that are in stock, they will ship out immediately. Most books should be available in time for Christmas.

Maryjean Zarick, harpist, composer, arranger and owner of Paradise Music announced today that 8 of her music arrangements and 1 of her original compositions have been selected for inclusion in the Soundtrack Library at Full Sail University.

For more than a decade, The Handmaiden, published as a 64-page journal, has been serving Orthodox women by offering them fresh content to inspire and illumine their hearts. With the Handmaiden of the Lord, the Holy Theotokos, as its guide, The Handmaiden strives to be a beacon of light, a place where Orthodox Christian women and others who are interested in Orthodox life and spirituality can come together to learn, share, relate, and grow. Click below to find out more about the Summer 2008 issue.

CorFun, a leader provider of Web design and eServices, is pleased to announce the go-live of its latest eCommerce site for New Hope Oils (www.newhopeoils.net). New Hope is a Brunswick, Ga. based manufacturer and seller of Christian anointing oils using unique blends of traditional ingredients Frankincense and Myrrh.

New book announcement! The Person of the Christ: The Earthly Context of the Savior Written by Daniel Fanous with a Forward by Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty

Orthodox Biz is pleased to announce a new set of tutorials on the Acajoom Pro mailing system. This is the same eNewsletter system that is used by such noted Orthodox organizations as the OCN, Orthodoxy Today, and the American Orthodox Institute.

The Acajoom system is also available for use by Platinum members of Orthodox Biz. Click here for more details.

Interested in doing professional, high-quality eNewsletters? View the tutorials to see how easy it can be, and then consider joining Orthodox Biz at a Platinum level or higher!

To view the tutorials, click here.

On this week's episode of Come Receive the Light, the national Orthodox Christian radio program, Fr. James Bernstein, author of a new book called "Surprised by Christ: My Journey from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity," talks about his spiritual journey and how it led him to become an Orthodox Christian priest. Fr. James explains why the Orthodox Church is the true home not only for Christian Jews, but for all who seek to know God as fully as He may be known.

Click here to listen and to download the accompanying study guide by Fr. John Parker.

This Sunday, March 9, is "Mission Sunday" across North America. Find out more about our common call to missions, and the ministry of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center, in this interview from OCN with Fr. Martin Ritsi. Click here or listen below.

Conciliar Press has announced that sales of the new Orthodox Study Bible have been extremely strong. First available in February 2008, the Orthodox Study Bible is the first ever full-length presention of the Bible of the early church. The Orthodox Study Bible uses the New King James Version of the Bible as the basis for a fresh translation of the Septuagint text. The Septuagint is the Greek version of the Bible used by Christ, the Apostles, and the early church.

Join a dynamic group of Orthodox Christians from around the Midwest for a lecture, brunch, and book signing with noted author Frederica Mathewes-Green on Bright Saturday, May 3, in Rocky River, Ohio.

Recently, we got word that some users of Orthodox Biz were experiencing Stack Overflow Errors when surfing the site. After looking into the problem, we figured out that some of our graphics were causing IE 6.0 to choke.

That's right - pictures. A few of our pictures were portable network graphics or png. Under some conditions, Internet Explorer 6.0 has trouble handling these kinds of pictures. We've fixed the issue, but this is a good a time as any to remind people - if you are still using IE 6.0 you are only hurting yourself!

Orthodox Biz has added video hosting to its list of services. Videos can be submitted by non-members, and are published subject to approval.

Videos can either be directly uploaded and published right from Orthodox Biz's own server, or linked in from a supported service like YouTube.

Orthodox Biz has now announced free publishing options. Now Press Releases, Announcements, Events, and Forum Posts do not require a membership.

Orthodox Biz includes the ability of Gold level members and higher to have their own mini-sites. Mini-sites can be used for a variety of purposes, including having additional marketing presence, or even serving as your primary Web presence.

MOORESVILLE, NC (January 2008)—Fr. William C. Mills is pleased to announce the publication of his fifth book, Let Us Attend: Reflections on the Gospel of Mark for the Lenten Season. This book is a collection of pastoral reflections on the gospel lessons from Mark that are read during Great Lent. Let Us Attend is a wonderful resource for personal and group Bible study, adult education classes, and sermon preparation.

Whimsy and Grace will be in Long Beach from Jan11-16 for the National Needlework Market. Last year there were
1100 booths for display. We are introducing a line of small purses that we expect to be a big hit at the show.

For more information about our collection, please visit our Website.

We also try to incorporate Orthodox imagery into our work. This is an image of "Servant of God” canvas painted based on the apples from the St Euphrosonos icon – just the apples!

Toni Randall

Paradise Music, a publisher of music for the harp, recently announced the upgrade of its Website www.paradiseharpmusic.com to a brand-new template.

Well, the upside of the server problem we recently experienced was that it gave us the window to migrate the site to PHP 5.0 That move opened up some new, really cool doors for us technically to enhance what our Orthodox Biz directory can do.