This coming weekend, in the US, it’s Memorial Day. You may have plans already, but just in case — have you thought about doing something a little different? How about a little mini-trip to a place you have never been to, or haven’t been to for a long time. Somewhere only a short distance away,…

Please tell everyone you know: friends, Church members, co-workers, believers and unbelievers!  “Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer,” my new book and documentary feature film on the prayer, with an unprecedented inner-view of Orthodox monasticism has an abbreviated public TV version playing on over 218 PBS TV stations this week, and especially for Easter.  The national…

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes. Without hope, we would get nothing accomplished. It is the fuel that burns our engines into action. That feeling of need, or desire, whether it be from pain, suffering, ambition or love of pleasure —…

I am so pleased to tell you, dear reader, that today is the publishing date for my new book, “Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer: Experiencing the Presence of God and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of An Ancient Spirituality.” Eight years in the making, it’s a travelogue of the mind, heart and spirit. Travel along…

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