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John Sester, LC

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in Rogers, MN, The United States

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https://jsesterlc.wixsite.com/john-sester-lc

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Fantasy, Christian, Spirituality

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C.S. Lewis, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...more

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Deacon John Sester is a Legionary of Christ religious, creative writer, and art enthusiast.

He grew up in a quiet town in central Minnesota until “joining up” as a religious with the Legionaries of Christ. He enjoys fiction and storytelling, movies, and anything that involves creativity and imagination. He also dabbles in singing, playing instruments, songwriting, sketching, digital painting, poetry, and short stories, and has been working on this novel trilogy for almost ten years.

After two years of novitiate (spiritual formation), he studied Classical Humanities at the Legionaries of Christ College in Connecticut and then Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He also spent two years in Mexico City ...more

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"Into the Wind" - Two Weeks Published!

My novel "Into the Wind" has been out for just a little over two weeks now and has had easily double the traction as my short story "Piloncilus". I'm so grateful to all those who picked up a copy or at least added it to their "list" to be read later.

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“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
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― G.K. Chesterton, In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton

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