No sooner did I note the link for Christian friendly books than I sent to my daughter for her to check out for her children.wowee do you do good work .
I do hope you'll share gleanings from your "Meaning vs. the Machine" event, it looks like an especially insightful crew coming together. Margaretville holds a special place in my heart as it is where I first fell in love with my husband some 30-odd years ago.
I know Fotini! As well as her amazing work on children’s books she is also leading a project to set up a Classical primary school with Orthodox Christian ethos near Edinburgh (Scotland)… they hope to open in 2025. They are fundraising now, so take a look (I’m not sure about the etiquette so I won’t post a link here).
Fotini is an incredible person with top-tier ideas, so glad you've included her website here. We use it often. As others have mentioned, she is the driving force behind an emerging Orthodox school in Edinburgh. Here's a link to their fantastic website: https://saintandrewsorthodoxchurchschool.org.uk
How long will you be in the US in October? Any chance you’ll make it further west for speaking events? (Like hopefully all the way to Northern California?!)
Dear Paul, I'm delighted to be joining you, Matt, N.S. and all the others for the Meaning vs the Machine weekend. What illustrious company! In the meantime, I am enjoying all your posts. (I'm new to the Substack world, and have a lot of catching up to do.)
You’ll be past peak autumn foliage in late October, but the Adirondack Mountains are worth it if you want to take a little drive north of the Catskills. Lots of good camping and trails there, the High Peaks region especially.
Speaking of the Catskills though, there’s a lovely little American children’s book about them called “My Side of the Mountain” which is about a young boy, sick of urban life in NYC, who decides to run away to live in the mountains. It’s unromantic about wilderness survival—to its great credit—but also touches on desires to live closer to the land and how separate we are from it in modern life. It radicalized me as a kid.
Don't know how long you'll be in this part of the country, but the places you'll be put you in a really nice central location for an "Orthodox Monasteries of the Northeast" tour. There are five or more within a two-hour drive of Margaretville. Those drives are in different directions, so it's probably not feasible to visit all of them, but I hope you can manage one or two. We have some treasures here!
I wish I had time for that. I have gone and packed my schedule. In future I would actually love to make a pilgrimage to some American monasteries as an end in itself.
That'd be great too. We don't have quite the long-established monastic tradition of some places, but in some ways that makes American monasteries all the more interesting: to some degree people are still figuring out what monasticism here looks like or ought to look like. I think you could make a good pilgrimage of it.
Thanks for the lead on Fotni’s book website! I’ve been wishing someone would make a labor of love like this for quite some time, and mostly came up with dead ends looking for one. I already picked up 4 books from the list for my toddler that I wouldn’t have found otherwise.
I feel silly asking this, but I cannot find any information at all on that link about how one could attend the Erasmus lecture. What am I missing?
Good question actually. I just noticed that too and have written to them to ask. I'll update here when I get a reply.
Thanks Paul!
They have now put up a registration form on the site linked to above.
Fantastic!
By the way, I have only just found your Substack. Fantastic! I will be digging in now.
Wow, honoured that you would do so! Thank you for subscribing. <gulp> <pulls up writing socks>.
I nabbed two tickets to the Erasmus Lecture, thanks for the heads up. Will be my first one. Looking forward to it!
(Or indeed by googling around for more info.)
I don't think the tickets for that one are posted yet! I checked too, looks like not (someone correct me if I'm wrong though)
Fotini! What a great resource! I will be sharing x
“Tales of Old England Christendom” is amazing! Thank you for the link.
Good luck.
No sooner did I note the link for Christian friendly books than I sent to my daughter for her to check out for her children.wowee do you do good work .
I do hope you'll share gleanings from your "Meaning vs. the Machine" event, it looks like an especially insightful crew coming together. Margaretville holds a special place in my heart as it is where I first fell in love with my husband some 30-odd years ago.
I know Fotini! As well as her amazing work on children’s books she is also leading a project to set up a Classical primary school with Orthodox Christian ethos near Edinburgh (Scotland)… they hope to open in 2025. They are fundraising now, so take a look (I’m not sure about the etiquette so I won’t post a link here).
Was thrilled to grab the second-to-last ticket to the Margaretville event! I'd been hoping you'd make a trip to the U.S. - looking so forward to it.
Fotini is an incredible person with top-tier ideas, so glad you've included her website here. We use it often. As others have mentioned, she is the driving force behind an emerging Orthodox school in Edinburgh. Here's a link to their fantastic website: https://saintandrewsorthodoxchurchschool.org.uk
I didn't know about that. Great stuff.
How long will you be in the US in October? Any chance you’ll make it further west for speaking events? (Like hopefully all the way to Northern California?!)
I will be around for a while, doing a few other things, but alas not that far West! But maybe next time.
Looking forward to hearing you in Tallinn next month Paul; we should have got rid of the snow by then. In case you were unaware, Orthodoxy can be a tricky subject here. This recent article from the state news outlet can lead you to all the relevant rabbit holes should you need to peer down them! https://news.err.ee/1609325135/ministry-recommends-moscow-orthodox-congregations-to-join-apostolic-church
Estonian religious politics, eh? I'll be keeping out of that and talking about technology instead. Looking forward to visiting!
Dear Paul, I'm delighted to be joining you, Matt, N.S. and all the others for the Meaning vs the Machine weekend. What illustrious company! In the meantime, I am enjoying all your posts. (I'm new to the Substack world, and have a lot of catching up to do.)
Warmly, Marilyn.
You’ll be past peak autumn foliage in late October, but the Adirondack Mountains are worth it if you want to take a little drive north of the Catskills. Lots of good camping and trails there, the High Peaks region especially.
Speaking of the Catskills though, there’s a lovely little American children’s book about them called “My Side of the Mountain” which is about a young boy, sick of urban life in NYC, who decides to run away to live in the mountains. It’s unromantic about wilderness survival—to its great credit—but also touches on desires to live closer to the land and how separate we are from it in modern life. It radicalized me as a kid.
Don't know how long you'll be in this part of the country, but the places you'll be put you in a really nice central location for an "Orthodox Monasteries of the Northeast" tour. There are five or more within a two-hour drive of Margaretville. Those drives are in different directions, so it's probably not feasible to visit all of them, but I hope you can manage one or two. We have some treasures here!
I wish I had time for that. I have gone and packed my schedule. In future I would actually love to make a pilgrimage to some American monasteries as an end in itself.
That'd be great too. We don't have quite the long-established monastic tradition of some places, but in some ways that makes American monasteries all the more interesting: to some degree people are still figuring out what monasticism here looks like or ought to look like. I think you could make a good pilgrimage of it.
Thanks for the lead on Fotni’s book website! I’ve been wishing someone would make a labor of love like this for quite some time, and mostly came up with dead ends looking for one. I already picked up 4 books from the list for my toddler that I wouldn’t have found otherwise.