LAFSF: The Orthodox Church, Faith Vs Knowledge, A look At St. Isaac 7th Century By Father Jesse Robinson

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on July 3, 2022
- 10:55 pm

Doubting Thomas Hand Painted Orthodox Icon. Courtesy/LAFSF

LAFSF News:

Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum presents: The Orthodox Church, Faith vs Knowledge, A look at St. Isaac 7th Century By Father Jesse Robinson.

This presentation will ask the questions from an Orthodox Christian perspective: Are faith and science really so opposed? How are they meant to be ordered? What end are they meant to serve? We will examine teachings of Orthodox Christian Fathers, with specific emphasis on the writings of the great ascetic of the 7th century, St. Isaac the Syrian.

Father Jesse Robinson was raised in Tempe, Ariz. where he joined the Orthodox Church with his family and a group of seekers in 1998. He is married to Chelsea, whom he met when he briefly owned an ice cream shop in Phoenix, Ariz. He is an okay dad to three boys with a fourth baby on the way. Fr. Robinson was ordained to the diaconate in November 2018, and to the priesthood in July of 2019. He received his Masters in Divinity from St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in May of 2020.

He recently took over as head priest and pastor of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Santa Fe in June of 2021 after the retirement of the beloved founding pastor, Fr. John Bethancourt. Holy Trinity is a parish of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, which is part of the Patriarchate of Antioch, one of the original Christian churches mentioned in the Bible.

The community is invited to attend this talk in person Wednesday, June 6, in Kelly Hall at 3900 Trinity Dr. or via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/GodCosmos.