About

The Christian Drifter is the home of the writings, folk art, devotional songs, and theo-cultural speculations of Mark Saint Paul, a first generation Portuguese-American who was raised in the Culto do Divino Espirito Santo; a Catholic lay order influenced by the millenarian theology of the medieval Franciscan Spiritualist Joachim of Fiore. MSP was born during the Watergate trail and survived Catholic School in the eighties, only to turn his back on the church and spend the better part of three decades looking for God in the psychedelic experience, the musical life, and indigenous spirituality; a road that eventually led him back to Christ through a highly unusual and supernatural series of events which may or may not be explored on this blog, at some unnamed time, somewhere down the proverbial road.

The Christian Drifter is about Radical Christianity, a Christianity that is in the world but not of the world. The kinds of subjects we we will talk about include Universal Salvation, Christian Anarchism, the Desert Fathers, Paul Tillich, Saint Augustine, Karl Rahner and Karl Barth, Jaques Ellul, Josef Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cosmic Christology, Communion & Liberation, Origen and the early Church Fathers, Catholic Worker Farms and Peter Maurin, the Monastic tradition in post-modernity, Pope John Paul II, Vatican II, William Blake, the Algorithm as Antichrist, Kierkegaard, Bob Dylan as Christian Prophet, the Calvinist origins of Cancel Culture, the Catholic Worker Movement and Dorothy Day, Saint John of the Cross, the events at Fatima in 1917, and the Omega Point theory. And much, much more.