PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Surrendering the Histories We Can No Longer Carry “The fire itself will test what sort of work each one has done.” — 1 Corinthians 3:13 There are moments when the whole history of a life seems to gather itself into a single grief. The death of my friend Fr. Drew Morgan opened such a moment for me. I found myself grieving not only the man, but nearly forty years of shared history: the things we loved, the work we undertook, the hopes we carried, the wounds we inflicted and rec