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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.
Giving ourselves to the epic quest of embodying God in our leprous bodies is how we exhaust evil.
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.
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.
Romantic fiction and science fiction give us the key that puts into proper perspective rulings like those of late by the U.S. Supreme Court redefining marriage. The key? Heroism.
The Roman Empire didn’t have a problem with Christian believers, but with Christian worshipers.
It doesn't matter if you're sailing a boat, smacking a tennis ball, kicking a football, climbing 8,000 meter peaks, playing chess, or drinking Christ’s blood from a chalice served by a priest in the Eucharistic worship of the Church. We’re all playing the same game for the same prize.
Boyd was ordained a Presbyter of the Church on December 29, 2004 by Bishops William Paul Mikler and Wayne Boosahda. He is the founder and Abbot of the Abbey of St. John in Colorado Springs, Colorado and also serves as the Presiding Abbot of the Alliance. Boyd and his wife, Sheila, happily reside in Colorado Springs where he enjoys hiking in the mountains, managing his five rental properties, and landscaping his yard. His vision of the Church is expressed by his favorite image, the Icon of Resurrection, which shows the gates of Hades not prevailing as Christ and His Church destroy evil and restore all things ruined by evil, beginning with Adam.

Boyd is the founding Abbot of the Abbey of St. John in Colorado Springs, Colorado and also serves as the Presiding Abbot of the Basileia Alliance.
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Initiatives Boyd's Involved With
Kingdom Superheroes is a global community of chivalric adventurers engaged in an epic lifestyle of heroically advancing the Kingdom of Christ.
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.
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.
The Standing Committee assists Bishop Mikler in his service to the Church around the world.
Expressions of Basileia Boyd Serves
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 areas of business and economics.
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.