Lynn is a founding member of the Order and is currently living at the Praxis Retreat and Learning Center, an ecumenical retreat facility that offers opportunities for prayer and study in the rural beauty of northeast Texas. Over the past several decades, in addition to his retreat work and teaching for the Order, Lynn’s passion and concentration has been on the development of spiritual commentaries for the Luminous Gospels of Thomas and Philip. He has completed a full commentary for the Gospel of Thomas, In Trouble and in Wonder, and for the Gospel of Philip, Temple Mysteries.

A member of the Oriental Orthodox Order in the West since 2008, Blake serves both the wider work of the Order across its many venues and ministers to the many spiritual and practical needs of his local community. Since retiring from his teaching and administrative duties at Baylor University for the past 40 years, Blake has turned his attention to the larger community of Waco and Central Texas where he has established the Heart of Texas Network for Immigrant Rights. He is both teaching and giving guidance for this new outreach as a part of the Order’s ministry as a World Christian. His activism is undergirded by a Divine Office of prayer and he continues to write on Jung, Contemplative Practice, and Spirituality.

Ann was drawn to the work of the Order in 2002, and has sought and served this Wisdom path since that time. After retiring as a parish priest in the Episcopal Church in Arizona, Ann has moved to Colorado, nearer to her family there, where she continues to minister both through the Church and beyond it in the work of the Order as monk, priest and Abbot. Currently she is not only attending to the needs of many monks, but is also leading workshops on spirituality and the reversal of racism for leaders and friends beyond the Order in that region and online.

Raised in an intellectual, scientific, and atheist family in Britain and Europe, Alison began her serious spiritual pilgrimage 25 years ago, being drawn to the teachings of the Diamond Heart leader, A. H. Almaas, with whom she has studied for many decades. She was subsequently drawn to the work of the Order, and as priest and Abbot she has been instrumental in the establishment of centers of spiritual community and ministry in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to her continuing ministry of teaching and spiritual direction for monks and friends, she continues to write, having been drawn to the Gospel of Mary Magdalene as a template for her text, A journey of inquiry through the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Michael is pastor of The Center for Christian Spirituality in Houston, Texas. He and his wife Rachel serve as ministers of worship, retreat leadership, and guidance. In that capacity, Michael has established a wide ministry of teaching and leadership involving the Wisdom tradition in its many forms, including an extensive corpus of chant and music. With musical colleagues he has helped produce the albums Epiphany Today: Between Two Worlds, A Discerning Heart: Songs from The Center and Everything Belongs: Songs from The Center. This is in addition to other publications that add to his work in the Order and beyond it to its many friends. He, along with Blake Burleson have published an important text: Entempling: Baptist Wisdom for Contemplative Prayer.