The Society of St. John Chrysostom Youngstown-Warren Chapter launches 2009 in an auspicious way with an address by Father Gregory Jensen, whom you probably know as the author of Koinonia blog (whose URL is “Palamas,” which I always read as “pajamas” — I am so utterly and irremediably Western). Father Gregory’s topic is “What Psychologists Can Teach Us About the Spiritual Life.”

The event takes place Tuesday, January 13, 2009, at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, 7782 Glenwood Ave., Boardman, Ohio.

Father Gregory is himself a psychologist, and the SSJC is great company. If you’re driving distance from the Youngstown, Ohio, area, don’t miss it!