A Year in the Company of Angels: A Pilgrim on Spruce Island

by Anthony Linderman

In A Year in the Company of Angels: A Pilgrim on Spruce Island, author Anthony Linderman presents true tales from his long pilgrimage to the monastic world of St. Michael’s Skete in Alaska. In these stories he shares in the daily lives of the monks and nuns—subsistence fishing with the fathers in the gulf, splitting winter wood supplies for the sisterhood, and hiking through the evergreen woods to holy sites from the heights of Mount St. Herman to the beach of Monk’s Lagoon. Each act is woven into the liturgical tapestry of their monastic life, and the author discovers that his best loved literary, musical, and pop-culture references all find their proper place in this microcosm. His book is a jubilant glimpse of the intimate, sanctifying relationship that this wild edge of the world shares with the entire cosmos.

About the Author: Anthony Linderman is a short-story writer, organic farmer, English Literature teacher, and graduate of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of the Theology. He was raised as an OCMC missionary kid in Albania. From 2022 through 2023 he spent almost a year living with the monks of St. Michael’s Skete on Spruce Island, Alaska. His interests include oral storytelling, fairy tales, and discovering the beauty hidden in everything. He currently resides with his wife, Christina, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Praise for A Year in the Company of Angels: A Pilgrim on Spruce Island

"Linderman writes with wit and imagination. There's a lively sense of the holy present and unusual shifts of thought. We need more of that." -Dr. Martin Shaw, author of Liturgies Of The Wild: Myths That Make Us

"There are places in this world . . . and then there are places. All of Alaska lies firmly in the second camp, and in particular the sister islands of Kodiak, Spruce, and St. Nilus, which are located not far from the base of the Aleutian chain. To set foot on them, imbued as they are with wild beauty and awesome power and the grace of abundant life, is to enter not only a new world, but a new mind, a new way of being." -from the Foreword by Dr. Timothy Patitsas, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology - Author, The Ethics of Beauty

Author: Anthony Linderman

Publisher: Ancient Faith Publishing

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