The Prayer of a Broken Heart

Father Paul Abernathy is an African American Orthodox Christian priest and founding pastor of St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in the Hill District, a predominantly Black neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the founder and CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project, an Orthodox Christian nonprofit focusing on building resilient, healing, and healthy communities through Trauma-Informed Community Development. He is a nationally renowned speaker whose work has been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, BBC, Ard (German) TV, and NPR. Father Paul is a U.S. Army Iraq War veteran and holds master's degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He and his beloved wife Kristina have two beautiful children.