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Gender	Male
Occupation	Wanna-Be Monk and/or Missionary
Location	Littlerock, Washington, United States
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	I'm an American who just finished a term of nine months in the Republic of Georgia teaching English. Look up TLG online if you want to learn more about the program (it's awesome!). I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian, and would like live a life in the Church, perhaps through the monastic vocation. (For those curious about my name, I had a completely different (and a lot more normal, for Americans) given name at my birth. However, I am a convert to the Orthodox Church, and as such, took a saint's name at my acceptance into the Church. The name I took was Theophilos, my patron saint being Theophilos of Antioch; the Georgian equivalent of this name (and thus what I'm going by here) is Teopile.)
Interests	Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Monasticism, Orthodox Missionary Work (e.g., OCMC), Liturgics, Hesychasm
Favorite movies	Ostrov, Bless You Prison, Amish Grace, Band of Brothers
Favorite music	Galoba (Georgian Chant), Byzantine Chant, All Orthodox Chant, Classical, Baroque
Favorite books	The Holy Orthodox Bible, The Great Horologion, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, To Autolycus/Ad Autolycum (It's by my patron saint; how can I not love it), anything by Heiromonk Seraphim of Platina, Hagiographies, the Evergetinos, the Philokalia