The Abbey of St. John is the founding apostolic team of the Basileia Community of St. John.

The Abbey serves to unite all new Fellowships of the Community into a colony of heaven on earth.

Abbot Boyd W. Morris presently serves as the Presiding Member of the Abbey of St. John Presbyter Council that includes Presbyters Todd Colister and John Hunt.

The Abbey hosts weekly Eucharistic Worship, is engaged in various missional initiatives and has member Chapters of Educators and Entrepreneurs.

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Conversations

Project Elrond

For mortals, fantasy isn’t real but pretend. But fantasy in the hands of faithful immortals is the power of sanctified imagination to fuse thought and action and build worlds in the language of poetry, epic story, ceremony, liturgy, and ritual.

A Great Music

The more I immerse myself in the universal language of myth and legend the more alive Scripture becomes, the more mystically transformative the sacraments and the Liturgy become, and the more clear the speaking of the Holy Spirit becomes.

Embodying God

Giving ourselves to the epic quest of embodying God in our leprous bodies is how we exhaust evil.

Waybread of Elves

The Father’s language is way more wild, controversial, deeply mystical, and outright outrageous than mortal minds can handle. Thus, to hear and learn from the Father we must first eat what Tolkien calls lembas, the waybread of Elves.

Change Your World!

Both the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan, like white and black pieces on a chessboard, are at war over whose world system shall rule creation.

People of the Abbey

People Blog

John Hunt

John is the founding Presbyter of the Fellowship of Saint Brendan in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Sheila Morris

Sheila is a founding member of the Abbey of St. John in Colorado Springs.

Todd Colister

Todd is the founding Presbyter of the Fellowship of St. John in San Mateo, California.

Boyd W. Morris

Boyd is the founding Abbot of the Abbey of St. John in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Initiatives of the Abbey

Initiatives Blog

Kingdom Superheroes

Kingdom Superheroes is a global community of chivalric adventurers engaged in an epic lifestyle of heroically advancing the Kingdom of Christ.

CenterPoint

CenterPoint is a Basileian cottage industry of the Abbey of St. John Entrepreneurs founded by Boyd and Sheila Morris in 2014. CenterPoint empowers individuals, families and businesses to use the Private Reserve System for wealth creation, preservation, and growth.

Developing a Resource Guide for Soul Friends

This guide offers five questions for each of the three practices that give expression to each of our five lifestyle disciplines. Soul Friends can use these questions as a guide to help focus in on core, foundational issues that any Basileian needs to be willing and able to live out in each area.

Communio Christiana Standing Committee

The Standing Committee assists Bishop Mikler in his service to the Church around the world.

Chapters of the Abbey

Expressions Blog

Abbey of St. John Educators

The Abbey of St. John Entrepreneurs is a global fellowship of friends from diverse backgrounds united on the epic, kingdomcultural quest with Christ and His Church to make all things new by destroying evil and restoring all things ruined by evil in and through the vocational area of education.

Abbey of St. John Entrepreneurs

Fellowship of St. Brendan

We are a fellowship of friends who share in a quest with Christ and his Church for personal and global transformation by traversing “the valley,” living heroically, destroying evil, and restoring all things. We believe the Church is the primary agent for creating an alternative world where all things are new, and we rejoice to be counted among her people.

The Alliance

The Alliance is the global expression of Basileia and a member of Communio Christiana. The Alliance is the global meeting place of the Abbots of all of Basileia's Communities and Vocational Societies.

Community of St. John

The Community of St. John is an Ecclesial City expression of Basileia and a member of the Alliance. The Community is a home for member Fellowships, the first being the Fellowship of St. John, united around the Abbey of St. John, the founding apostolic team of the Community.

Abbey of St. John

The Abbey of St. John is the founding apostolic team of the Basileia Community of St. John. The Abbey serves to unite all new Fellowships of the Community into a colony of heaven on earth.

Abbey of St. John

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