About Robin Phillips

Hi Everyone! This is where I get to tell you a bit about myself, the man behind the blog.

I live in Virginia. I love reading novels, playing the piano, going on long hikes, listening to classical music, experimenting with essential oils, watching and analyzing movies, playing board games, and discussing the Great Ideas with friends.

My professional life is comparatively less interesting, though it takes longer to describe. I have a Master’s in History from King’s College London, and a Masters’ in Library Science from the University of Oklahoma, where I specialized in information literacy. I lived in England for ten years, where I did my undergraduate studies and worked as a journalist for a political action group. Since moving back to the United States, the home of my birth, I have done a variety of jobs from being a janitor to working at a cigar shop to being a high school history teacher to working as a freelance writer and researcher for a variety of clients. I have been invited to be a guest speaker on radio and television, and have given presentations at academic and popular conferences throughout the world, including conferences sponsored by the University of Winchester, the American Society of Church History, the Society for the Study of Theology, and the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion. My radio broadcasts, articles, and live television appearances have been featured in various media outlets, including Sky News, Ancient Faith Radio, and the Mars Hill Audio Journal. I occasionally take temporary academic positions, and these have included leading tutorials on 19th century history at King’s College London, teaching k-12 teachers throughout America how to integrate mindfulness protocols into their classrooms, and developing curriculum for the Master’s programs of Argosy University, Antioch University, Benedictine University, Valparaiso University, Central Michigan University, and Seattle Pacific University.

Currently I work as Director of Library Services for Washington Heritage University, where I am also professor of Theology and Contemporary Culture. On the side, I do freelance editing and writing, including occasionally working as a ghost-writer (and no, that doesn’t mean I get to write scary stories). I am a contributor to Pain, Suffering and Resilience: Orthodox Christian Perspectives (Sebastian Press, 2018) and the author of How to Experience the Good Life…even when everything is going wrong (Ancient Faith, 2020) and Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation: A Manual for Recovering Gnostics (Ancient Faith 2023) and co-author with Joshua Pauling of Are We All Cyborgs Now? Technology and the Christian Faith (Basilian Media, 2024).