The Confessions of a Christian Salesman
One book in two volumes.
Spiritual autobiography meets practical sales philosophy. The philosophical engine behind every NLCO venture, written for the Christian who has to sell, lead, and live for a living.
Volume I — Philokalia — writes weekly on Substack. Volume II — A Philosophy for Life — in draft.
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Volume I
Philokalia.
A contemplative autobiography. Recorded prayers, dialogues with God, gathered moments of encounter — arranged into a single nine-movement arc that traces the same path Poetics traced in verse: from pain and disorientation through purification, illumination, and union into freedom in the truth.
The Greek title means “love of the beautiful.” The book takes its name from the eighteenth-century patristic anthology — a florilegium of the Fathers, gathered for the contemplative life. Philokalia is the first florilegium of Aaron's own writing life: gathered beauty from years of walking with God, arranged for the reader who is hungry for the same.
Volume II
A Philosophy for Life.
The practical companion. Three threefold movements: Love · Lead · Live at the outer arc; Give · Show · Invite nested inside. Where Volume I is the prayer behind the work, Volume II is the work itself — a coherent way to do all three without splitting in half.
In active draft. Releases when ready.
Read these too
Florilegium.
The tradition CCS sits inside. Read these alongside.
- Augustine, ConfessionsThe original genre.
- Dante, Divine ComedyInferno · Purgatorio · Paradiso. The three-movement spine.
- (Various), The PhilokaliaThe patristic anthology Volume I is named after.
- Solomon, Song of SongsThe unembarrassed register.
When Volume II ships
Be in the inbox the day it does.
The newsletter announces it first. One Monday note in the meantime.