Fr. Alexis Trader is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College (BA), the University of Chicago (MA), St. Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary (MDiv), and the University of Thessalonica (Ph. D.), and was formerly a lecturer in Patristics at St. Tikhon's. Since 1996, he has been a monk of Karakallou Monastery on Mount Athos, and since 2005 has served as priest of the Monastery of St. Demetrios in Nea Kerdyllia, in Greece. He has translated many books from Greek, as well as published his doctoral dissertation, Ancient Christian Wisdom and Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy: A Meeting of Minds (Peter Lang, 20...