SILOUAN

In the mid-90’s I began a study of history and worship that led me in 1999 to enter the Orthodox Church. By then, the text file where I’d been keeping notes had grown into a collection of paper and electronic documents and a daunting pile of books.

When friends asked me why I converted, I wanted to share everything I’d read, but at the time not much was available online. So I published a site called SILOUAN at PhilThompson.net, built by hand in Notepad, using shiny new (at the time) HTML 3.0, as a sort of online journal of my study and thoughts.

A “Web Log,” if you will.

Now, something like eight years later, the tech behind the site has not aged well, and I haven’t updated it in a while. But the site continues to generate hits and start dialogues, so I’ve migrated that content into Wordpress and updated the design to match the current incarnation of PhilThompson.net.

Results so far: SilouanThompson.net