A collection of six essays by leading Orthodox theologians on laity and living the Orthodox Christian life. Patristic Understandings of the Laity and Holiness by Helen Creticos Theodoropoulos Educating Laity: Ideas on the Present, Past and Future or Orthodox Christian Religious Education in the United States by Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides Priesthoods and Pieties: Orthodoxy and the Post-Reformation by A. Gregg Roeber, with a response by Robert Arida Unexpected Consequences: A Preliminary Analysis of the Revolt Agaist Archbishop Spyridon in the Greek Archdiocese of America, 1996-99, with a response by Anton Vrame Canonical Perspectives on the Position of the Laity by Patrick Viscuso, with a response by Lewis Patsavos Liturgical Perspectives on the Laity by John Klentos, with a response by Kyriaki Karidoyanes Fitzgerald