From Alaska To Fiji — The Story Of One Family’s Spiritual Journey

Jones Family Missionaries

EAGLE RIVER, Alaska — Michael and Meghan Jones were seeing their construction business flourish in this rural suburb outside of Anchorage when they got a wild notion: Move to Fiji.  The motivation for this family with four young children to uproot and migrate from colder to warmer climate wasn’t the island lifestyle. Rather, it was […]

A Seminary That Serves As Kodiak Island’s Arctic Willow

Alaska - Students attend morning prayer.

The Arctic Willow by Varlaam Shalamow  The willow flowers, packed in snow, The willow must hurry, To live like a bird, like a man If it really wishes to live.  KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska — Kassiana Sonday wakes at 5 a.m. most days to rush to the early chapel and help prepare for morning prayer at […]

The Beatles, Bees And Orthodoxy Animated In One Man’s Life

Joseph Dunham

The story of Joseph Dunham – A hippie in the Alaskan Wilderness EAGLE RIVER, Alaska – Shortly after I arrived at this picturesque Orthodox community 15 miles north of Anchorage, residents rushed to ask if I’d met and talked to a guy named Joe Dunham.  Several young Orthodox converts who live at the St. James […]

A Truly Catholic Law School in the Heart of Florida

Ave Maria School of Law

At Ave Maria School of Law, Catholic Legal Education is Alive and Well The relocation of Ave Maria School of Law to southwest Florida in the summer of 2009 marked a new era in the state’s position in legal education. Since then, Ave Maria Law has been an “unabashedly Catholic” institution of higher learning. Despite […]