St. Djan Darada Fellowship

(The following is a rough manuscript of my presentation at St. Basil the Great (Antiochian) Orthodox Church in Hampton on Saturday, June 24th.  Somewhere in mid speech, I attempted to make some changes off the cuff.  Those who heard my talk say it was great.  Of course, I am my own worst critic.  A link to the video is at the bottom of the article.  If you get something out of this that helps you on your Christian journey, glory to God.  Count the errors to my head and not heart.)

You can go back to the very beginning of Christianity, Catholicism, the genesis of Christianity as we know it to be presently constituted, with it’s heirarchy, was conceived in Africa-by those whom the Christian Church calls “The Desert Fathers.”   El-Hadjj Malik El-Shabazz/Malcolm X (1)

You can read the words of someone like St. Macarius, who lived in the deserts of…