Digital Contact Information
- 📧 E-mail address: luke@lukesmith.xyz
- GPG key for encrypting mail if you know how, download here
or just run:
curl -sL https://lukesmith.xyz/lukesmith.gpg | gpg --import- Fingerprint:
0DF9 140B 749D 3940 BAE5 4E7F 4C50 B54A 911F 6252 - All legitimate emails from me will be signed with this GPG key.
Other Sites
I’m not on Telegram, I’m not on Twitter, I’m not on Facebook, I’m not on R*ddit, I’m not on Mastodon, I don’t post on 4chan and no account anywhere imitating me or any of my “brands” has any association with me other than fraudulent. I do have a GitHub and GitLab Any profile not linked from this site is simply not mine. I suppose I do have a Gab account, but I don’t use it.
Answering Email
I usually read, but rarely respond to email. Please don’t be offended if I don’t respond!
☦️ Spiritual Advice
If you need spiritual advice, I am not the proper person to ask. My response to all of these questions will be the same: Go to the Orthodox Christian Church near you and talk to the priest. If you are an American, you can consult this site to see where the closest parishes are to you.
When a man once truly repents, he need not think any more about the sins he committed so that he will not sin again. St. Anthony counsels: “Be careful that your mind not be defiled with the remembrance of former sins and that the remembrance of those sins not be renewed in you.” Again, in another place, St. Anthony says: “Do not establish your previously committed sins in your soul by thinking about them so that they not be repeated in you. Be assured that they are forgiven you from the time that you gave yourself to God and repentance. In that, do not doubt.”
It is said of St. Ammon that he attained such perfection that from much goodness he was not aware that evil exists anymore. When they asked him what is that “narrow and difficult [sorrowful] path” (St. Matthew 7:14), he replied: “That it is the restraining of one’s thoughts and severing of one’s desires in order to fulfill the will of God.” Whoever restrains sinful thoughts, does not think of his own sins or the sins of others neither of anything corruptible nor of anything earthly. The mind of such a man is continually in heaven where there is no evil. Thus, in him, sin gradually ceases to be, even in his thoughts.
St. Nikolai Velimirovic of Ohrid and Zhicha – The Prologue of Ohrid, August 22