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Parenting through financial hardships
Faith - a policy we can all support! Have you seen our new video? Click here to learn more about our theme for the month of October and watch our new video. Are you a fan of the Orthodox Christian Network? Then please share our Come Receive the Light page with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, +Google, and Linked In. A world in crisis needs to find its way to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Facing Unemployment
Faith - a policy we can all support! Have you seen our new video? Click here to learn more about our theme for the month of October and watch our new video. Are you a fan of the Orthodox Christian Network? Then please share our Come Receive the Light page with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, +Google, and Linked In. A world in crisis needs to find its way to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Having a Thriving Marriage on a Budget
Faith - a policy we can all support! Have you seen our new video? Click here to learn more about our theme for the month of October and watch our new video. Are you a fan of the Orthodox Christian Network? Then please share our Come Receive the Light page with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, +Google, and Linked In. A world in crisis needs to find its way to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Suicide - Understanding this Hopeless Act
Faith - a policy we can all support! Have you seen our new video? Click here to learn more about our theme for the month of October and watch our new video. Are you a fan of the Orthodox Christian Network? Then please share our Come Receive the Light page with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, +Google, and Linked In. A world in crisis needs to find its way to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faith a policy we can all support
Are you a fan of the Orthodox Christian Network? Then please share our Come Receive the Light page with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, +Google, and Linked In. A world in crisis needs to find its way to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Anxiety & Unemployment - October 2011
Dear Blessed People of God, This month OCN kicks off a new series of programming that we hope you will find enjoyable, informative, and above all, inspiring. The first month will cover issues that refer to one of the most important concerns facing people today throughout the world according to recent studies. Morality and Popular Culture - November 2011
Is there a difference between being “good” and being “moral”? Popular culture seems to cast a wide net on what it means to be a “good person.” It goes a step further by suggesting that some things we as Orthodox consider to be unhealthy are actually what make a person “normal”. Popular culture also insists that a person needs certain character traits in order to be a “good person” that maybe conflict with what Orthodox believe are good traits. So this is the topic we are going to cover this month. God has sanctified us with the the TRUTH but how many of us understand this? The True Light of Christmas - December 2011
Santa Claus is coming to town...Merry Christmas..Happy Holidays...Christ is Born! So just what are we supposed to say when we greet someone this season? The Hinshaw's recent work in Ethiopia
Battling childhood cancer
Remembering 9/11OCN remembers the tragedy of 9/11 this week, speaking with Father Icon - Eikona of Agios Nikolaos by Tommaso Antonino Aiello
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This week on CRTL, we'll hear from Theodora Polamalu, wife of Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburg Steelers, about a new FOCUS campaign called Tackle Poverty. But first, financial hardships can affect every area of our life - including our parenting! Join Allena Barbato, an Orthodox psychologist who is also a certified parenting instructor, as she offers practical suggestions about how to keep your family on track even when money is tight.
This week on CRTL, we delve deeper into the personal side of the current economic crisis. We'll begin with Anastasia Carol Kruse, an Orthodox Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who specializes in career counseling, about how we can become empowered by unemployment. Next, we'll hear from Erik Bohlin, another Orthodox believer and nationally certified counselor about common identity and emotional questions that people who are unemployed face.
When we think about the current economy, our minds usually jump to bank accounts and the stock market. But how does financial uncertainty impact our personal relationships? Dr. Albert Rossi explores the communication problems, identity issues and resentments that can arise between married couples during tight times. Plus, some people have been more affected by this crisis than others. Julia DeMaree of Emmaus House in Harlem talks about that important homeless ministry and why it needs your help now! To learn more about Emmaus House visit, 
This week we’ll hear from Dr. David Brattston, a man whose articles on suicide have been published by nearly every Christian denomination. He’ll help us understand what drives people to this desperate act of hopelessness, offer suggestions on what we can say to people who are thinking of suicide and also weigh in on the topic of assisted suicide. To learn more, read these articles: 
This week on CRTL, we begin our month-long look at anxiety and unemployment by speaking with His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios on trusting in God not headlines. Faith - a policy we can all support! Have you seen our new video? Click 
From the desk of Father Chris Metropulos, Executive Director of the Orthodox Christian Network
Basketball-sized tumors, colostomies covered by old plastic bags, an HIV-positive woman who’s husband and 3 children have already died of the disease. These are some of the experiences Drs. Jane and Dan Hinshaw had when they went on a three week mission trip to Ethiopia. Join them as they share what they saw, did and learned. When we hear about “missions,” many of us picture scenes of foreign countries. But there are a growing number of mission parishes right here in America. Fr. Mark T. Mancuso of St. Elizabeth the New-Martyr Orthodox Church of Cayce, South Carolina, talks about the joys and struggles of a mission parish in the USA. 
Dean Yianis, father to a 6 year-old named Theofanis who is battling Neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer, joins Fr. Chris to talk about his family’s experience with this disease and its impact on their spiritual lives. But first, Christ commanded us to visit those in prison, but what are we as Orthodox communities offering to prisoners? Chaplain Patrick Tutella is back on the show to encourage developing local prison ministries..jpg)
Rafael Barberg who was at Ground Zero on 9/11. We’ll also hear from Anthoula Katsimatides, whose brother John died in the Towers and Fr. Mark Arey on the reconstruction of St Nicholas Church the only house of worship destroyed on that historic day. Special for this week - listen to the full interview from each guest.