A Greek word, pronounced /mak-ar'-ee-os/
The Bible uses the word Makarios to indicate those who are blessed.


At The Makarios Institute, we help people recover the Bible as a means of real blessing.

We resource leaders to wrestle patiently with the Bible, to know how its wisdom addresses difficult theological issues and guides our communities to become sources of real blessing.

Feeding Community and Imagination with the Bible in Los Angeles.

Focused on Southern California, the goal of Makarios is to encourage ongoing, lifelong education by recovering the Bible as the shared language of Christians, a powerful resource for addressing pressing societal and community issues, and indispensable for our collective life

What we do