Intermarried couples from different Christian and cultural backgrounds encounter unique challenges that single-church, single-cultural couples do not face.
When You Intermarry describes these challenges from the perspective of hundreds of couples who participated in the Interfaith Marriage Research Project.
When You Intermarry is an especially useful tool for intermarried couples who have some level of connection to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America or some other Orthodox jurisdiction. It is available on amazon.com, Light & Life Publishing or by calling the bookstore at Hellenic College Holy Cross at 1-800-245-0599.
This resource has been written for clergy and lay professionals who 
work with intermarried couples. It was also written to be used with my first book entitled - When You Intermarry.
Both books provide information from hundreds of intermarried couples, Archdiocese wide, who participated in the Interfaith Research Project. Ministering to Intermarried Couples features a hands-on pastoral approach that can be used with the intermarried population across the marital and family life cycle. It also deals with issues related to conversion, premarital preparation, marital challenges, parenting, extended family challenges, as well as the topic of effective outreach. Since our faithful are intermarrying at increasingly high numbers, clergy and lay professionals who read this book will find it helpful in their work with all couples, especially intermarried couples.
It is available on amazon.com, or by calling the bookstore at Hellenic College Holy Cross at 1-800-245-0599.
Whether you are a couple preparing to marry, are newly married, or are past the newlywed stage, you will find this resource to be very useful in your efforts to reclaim the love you have lost or to protect the love you still enjoy. This book combines down-to-earth examples, cutting edge research and the author's Orthodox Christian perspective to assist you and your partner to attend to your marriage and its needs. The author callsu up his extensive experience as a pastor, therapist and educator in writing this valuable resource.
It is available from Light and Life Publishing.
www.light-n-life.org
When Russia Came to Stay by Lea Povozhaev
When Russia Came to Stay is a story of a family's journey into Orthodox Christianity. The author clearly documents numerous serious inter-Christian and intercultural challenges that both she and her Russian born husband, Dima, encounter in their efforts to bring together two different backgrounds. The couple’s efforts to struggle with personal, couple, family and extended family challenges hold the reader’s attention. As the story unfolds, one wonders how the couple will bridge their many differences. Engaged couples from different religious and cultural backgrounds as well as intermarried couples should profit from reading this Christ-centered story. I enthusiastically endorse this book and recommend it to anyone interested in how religious and cultural differences can challenge and strengthen persons, couples and families: to God’s glory and their salvation.
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