Fathers of the Soul: What the Orthodox Church Can Teach Evangelicals About Spiritual Leadership
In the Orthodox Church, there is a figure revered not for his charisma or public speaking, not for his visionary leadership or institutional power, but for something far more intimate and haunting: his capacity to father souls. He is the spiritual father: a priest, monk, or elder whose life is not his own, but whose prayerful presence becomes a guiding flame in the shadowed terrain of another’s…














