From Notable Alumni · Foundation editorial

Religion-of-the-world children's books; co-translator of the Book of Revelation for the Millennium Translation Project. Sevastiades had at least four careers first (Wall Street, fashion photography, the publishing trade, and finally the Greek Orthodox priesthood), a trajectory that ought not have been possible in one life and was. As Father Economou he ran the only Orthodox Christian radio program in northern Minnesota. As a Philolexian he was famous, in the debate hall, for arguing with unsettling consistency that monarchy was the form of government best suited to our present age. He wrote eight children's books on the religions of the world for grade-school readers (among them I Am Eastern Orthodox, I Am Roman Catholic, and I Am Protestant), and co-translated Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation (Oracle, 2002) for the Millennium Translation Project. He died at forty-eight, in Duluth, in 2004.