Basileia

June 25, 2014

Todd Colister

Basileia

June 25, 2014

Todd is the founding Presbyter of the Fellowship of St. John 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