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June 25, 2014

Todd Colister

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June 25, 2014

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Mabry-Colister Wedding

Deborah Mabry and Todd Colister were married at Lehmberg Chapel, Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday, January 31, A.D. 2015.

Pascha (Easter) Baptism 2014

Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014 was the perfect day to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord along with our sister Deborah Diane Byrd, as she identified herself publicly with Jesus' death, burial and resurrection through Baptism.

Todd was ordained a Presbyter of the Church on December 2, 2006 by Bishop William Paul Mikler. He is the founding Presbyter of the Fellowship of St. John in San Mateo, California, where he also supervises flight attendants with United Airlines. On June 20, 2014, Todd was appointed as the Presiding Abbot of the Basileia Community of St. John. He is a happy father of two and grandfather of four, is a skilled home remodeler, mechanic, loves motocross and ATV riding, hunting and target shooting. Out of passion and love for Christ and His Church, Todd has engaged in pioneering missional work for over 30 years. He describes his calling with Basileia as one of building the City of God.

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

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INITIATIVES Todd's INVOLVED WITH

Initiatives

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.

EXPRESSIONS OF BASILEIA Todd SERVES

Expressions

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.

Fellowship of St. John

The Fellowship of St. John was founded by Presbyter Todd Colister and is located in San Mateo, California.

Introducing Other Basileians

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John Hunt

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

Ben Hickenlooper

Ben Hickenlooper has been a member of Basileia since 2004 where he serves as an intercessor with the Abbey of St John.

William Mikler

Bill is the presiding bishop of Communio Christiana.

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.

Recent Conversations

Community of St. John

Oct 8, 2015

Project Elrond

Oct 8, 2015

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.

Oct 8, 2015

Sep 24, 2015

A Great Music

Sep 24, 2015

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.

Sep 24, 2015

Sep 10, 2015

Embodying God

Sep 10, 2015

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

Sep 10, 2015

Aug 26, 2015

Waybread of Elves

Aug 26, 2015

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.

Aug 26, 2015

Aug 6, 2015

Change Your World!

Aug 6, 2015

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.

Aug 6, 2015

Jul 23, 2015

Colony of Heaven

Jul 23, 2015

The Church on earth is a colony of heaven’s citizens commissioned to heavenize earth.

Jul 23, 2015

Jul 9, 2015

Jane Austen Rules!

Jul 9, 2015

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.

Jul 9, 2015

Jun 25, 2015

The Politics of Worship

Jun 25, 2015

History belongs to worshipers of Emperor Jesus. You can’t get more political than that.

Jun 25, 2015

Jun 11, 2015

The Empire of God

Jun 11, 2015

The Roman Empire didn’t have a problem with Christian believers, but with Christian worshipers.

Jun 11, 2015

May 27, 2015

Game On!

May 27, 2015

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.

May 27, 2015

May 14, 2015

The Drug of Immortality

May 14, 2015

Providentially, only two days before watching the movie, Lucy, for the first time in my life I encountered the phrase, “the drug of immortality,” but not from a Hollywood scriptwriter.

May 14, 2015

Apr 28, 2015

The Physics of Spirituality

Apr 28, 2015

Spiritualistic and materialistic notions of the world are scandalous. They both suffer from an underdeveloped sense of the Resurrection as an accomplished fact. The image of God in us isn’t just a “spiritual” reality, but also one for the physics books.

Apr 28, 2015

Apr 16, 2015

Faith in Humanity

Apr 16, 2015

Having faith in God doesn’t magically make the world a better place. Having God’s faith in humanity does.

Apr 16, 2015

Apr 2, 2015

Circle Me, Lord

Apr 2, 2015

"Circle me, Lord." The First Adam didn’t pray this way nor invite his wife to join him in such a prayer. However, the Second Adam does pray this way and invites his bride, the Church, to join Him in praying this way too.

Apr 2, 2015

Mar 19, 2015

Something Big's Happening

Mar 19, 2015

Forbidden fruit never satisfies. The more we eat, the hungrier we get. We’re at a turning point. Something big’s happening. We’re losing a taste for formulas. The prodigal son is coming to his senses.

Mar 19, 2015