Speakers

Topic for 2023 retreat:  Marriage and Family Life.

Dr. David:  Professor of Church History and teacher at St. Tikhon’s Seminary for 35 years.  He is also a well known Orthodox writer, currently translating letters and various works of St. John Chrysostom, of which 3 volumes have been published.  In 2019, Fr. John Wehling spoke to the clergy wives at Dormition about Dr. David Ford’s book St. John Chrysostom’s Letters to St. Olympia.
 
Dr.  Mary:  Professor of Scripture and has just retired from teaching at St. Tikhon’s Seminary after nearly 35 years.  In her own right, she is a well known Orthodox speaker and author.
 
Perhaps most well known, they co-wrote Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints, and worked extensively on many articles for the Orthodox Study Bible.