Volume 3, Number 2, Authors and Contributors

Mr. Jamil Malone is an advertising strategist in Wichita, Kansas. His home parish is St. George Cathedral in Wichita. Jamil holds a bachelors of arts from The University of Tulsa, and served on the OCF Student Advisory Board for four years, chairing the board for three of those years while at Tulsa. His other “jobs” include helping with administrative work at Camp St. Raphael, teaching Church School and singing in the choir.

Mr. Andrew Boyd is the Managing Editor of this blog and a member of the OCA’s Department of Youth, Young Adult and Campus Ministries. Originally from Connecticut, he attended the University of Connecticut where he was very active in the local chapter of The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF). He is now in his final semester in a Master’s program at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in Yonkers, NY.

Archpriest Steven Voytovich is the Director of the Department of Institutional Chaplaincies for the Orthodox Church in America. He holds M.A., M.Div., and D.Min degrees from St. Vladimir’s Seminary. He works in institutional settings training hospital and institutional chaplains. He is attached to Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in New Britain, Connecticut.

Archpriest John Shimchick is the rector of Holy Cross Orthodox Church in Medford, New Jersey. He studied music at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York and completed his seminary studies at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in 1980. Since 1990 he has been the editor of “Jacob’s Well” a publication of the Diocese of New York and New Jersey.