Eat (Less) Pray (More) Love (Christ)

Reflections from an Orthodox Prodigal

Eirené Archolekas

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781666752618
  9781666752625
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666752632
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Biographies

Having faith in a postmodern world is a grace. This collection of reflections captures the struggle, the joy, and the angst in keeping the Orthodox faith in the everyday workings of an Orthodox woman. Whether grumbling about completing the endless to-do lists in a working woman’s life or reveling in the beauty of a winter morning, this book gives an interior look into the soul of a tortured soul hoping against hope for the grace and the peace that comes with knowing the Lord. Told in a confessional style, each reflection speaks of the difficulties in keeping faith, keeping the fast, keeping gratitude in the heart. It reveals the interior monologue of a prodigal and narrates the insights that come from the fear and trembling of living in the twenty-first century with its nihilism, despondency, and existential agony. Divided into three parts, it reads as a lament, a prayer, and a confession while offering nuggets of wisdom that come through contemplation of specific traditions and feasts of the church. Eat (Less) Pray (More) Love (Christ) is the spiritual diary of a prodigal heart yearning to love Christ in spite of her vulnerabilities, her shortcomings, and her doubts.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Prologue
• Choose Your own Adventure
• Carpe Diem via Ground Hog Day
• Lessons about Sitting Still Or What the PAUSE taught me
• Surrender to the Tsunami
• The Alchemy of Faith: Natural Law vs Divine Providence
• Waxing into the Threshold: The Liminal as Spiritual Experience
• Growing Old: The Fine Art of Learning to Lose
• Waiting for the Bridegroom
• Monkey Man vs. Christ: A Crisis of Faith
• Faith is a Many-Feathered Quetzal
• The Importance of Being
• “GOD” is “DOG” Spelled Backwards
• To Choose or Be Chosen?
• Whore as Saint : a revisionist understanding of female Sainthood
• Is there such a thing as a Christian feminist?
• The Limits of Logic
• Struggle to Have Faith
• The Lenten Fast and Cheese Doodles
• Ms. Grumble
• The Demon Inside
• Clear the Table
• Accountability
• Archery Lesson
• My Spiritual Diet
• This Strange Rock: A Cosmic Contemplation
• East vs West Mindset: a snatch of journal
• Peeling Away the Delusion
• Sitting with My Demons
• Gratefulness
• Prayer for Daily Bread
• Jesus Prayer
• Morning is a Miracle
• We missed you
• God vs Satan in Me
• On Corruption
• Thoughts Upon a Gravesite
• Saturday of the Myrrh-bearing Women: Anastasi to the ladies…
• Psycho Sabbato and Orthodox traditions (Koliva) for commemorating the dead
• Transfiguration and the Artist
• Epistle Reading
• Christmas: setting up lights in the darkness
• “Will there be faith left on earth when the Son of Man returns?”
• “For a thousand years are but a day in your sight”
• The Cross
• The Desert
• Pentecost
• Clean Monday: Quarterpounder vs Jesus
• Massacre and Martyrdom: The Battle between Light and Dark…
• The Lenticular Jesus During his Passion
• Monastery St Paissius
• Mystic Calling
• A Case for Martha
• Dry Bones and Relics
• On the Dormition of the Theotokos
• June 4th: Mary of Bethany, Radical Feminist of Passive Resistance
• St Irene the Great Martyr (May 5th)
• The Ungraspable Miracle: St. Katherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai
• The Church and Convent of St. Lazarus, Bethany
• St Chariton en Farah
• Bibliography