Saintly Synopsis: Fr. Seraphim Rose - Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

 Imagine, if you will, the quiet forests of northern California in the 1970s—a land of towering redwoods, remote monastic cells, and a small brotherhood of monks laboring to preserve the ancient faith amid the cultural upheavals of America. It was there, at the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood in Platina, that a converted soul named Eugene Rose, who became Hieromonk Seraphim, took up his pen not as a scholar seeking fame, but as a watchman on the walls, sounding an alarm for the faithful.