High quality recordings in both audio and video from the landmark 'Jordanville Conference' which took place just last weekend (March 7-9) are now available for online listening and download from Ancient Faith Radio. Titled 'Chastity, Purity, Integrity: Orthodox Anthropology and Secular Culture in the 21st Century', this is shaping up to be the most significant …
Tag: Spirituality
St Tikhon’s 2019 Liturgical Calendar to feature photographs from The North American Thebaid Project
I feel deeply honored to have several of my images from my two-year pilgrimage to over thirty Orthodox monasteries across North America included in this important calendar, which is an annual "must have" resource for Orthodox Christians in the USA and Canada. Previous years have featured photos of Orthodox parishes, rare festal icons and frescoes, …
The Western Pilgrimage Begins…
Parish visits and a special encounter with a monastic writer and abbot, plus great travel weather, have 'put the wind in my sails' for this major leg of my American Thebaid Pilgrimage. Sorry for the spotty posting lately, but my limited multitasking capabilities have been limited to a variety of deadline-driven tasks. Now that I'm …
Recent Elders on Monasticism
First in a new series of blog posts featuring reflections on monasticism by 20th century Orthodox monks and nuns. In working on the design for the North American Thebaid coffee table book — the publishing goal of my two-year photographic pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian monasteries of the USA & Canada — I am going back …
The North American Thebaid 