Fr. Cassian Sibley is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, serving a parish he founded in Bryan, Texas. A graduate of HBU and the recipient of a Presidential Scholarship at Rice University, he studied Sociology, English Literature, Philosophy and Religious Studies. His current intellectual interests include Patristic Theology, Missiology, Eco-Justice, Civil Liberties, Aesthetics, and the unintended consequences of modern technology. He was raised in Malawi, Africa, went to boarding school in Kenya, and has continued to be engaged in church planting, college ministry, prison ministry, homeless ministry - and Orthodox foreign missionary work, most recently in Uganda. In addition to being a priest, Fr. Cassian has gained real life experience employed as a social worker, a caseworker for juvenile delinquents, a test car driver, a grant writer, a writing tutor, an organic gardener, a school teacher, an Aflac agent, a bilingual education tutor, a newspaper delivery technician, and a watercolor instructor. He owns five acres of almost entirely unimproved rural riparian-zone forest where he and his wife, Dr. Mat. Olympia Sibley, live in a couple of small eco-cottages, mostly off the grid. He paints and writes when he can.