During college Seamans was employed as a
police officer and completed the police academy in 1987. After graduation he moved to
Mountain Home,
Arkansas, and went to work with the Mountain Home Police department where he eventually served as a
lieutenant before retiring in 2011. Seamans states he felt a growing desire to fulfill a vacuum in his spiritual life and in 1997 he began to study church history and liturgy. Then, he states, he found a historical, ancient expression of Christianity in the Anglican tradition. In November 2015 he became Orthodox.
History Seamans then continued to serve under Arkansas Episcopal bishop Larry Maze, but left the Episcopal Church three years later because of its social and theological liberalism, as well as what he describes as "its departure from the norms that Holy Scripture lays out for the Christian life and ministry". , Sam Seamans and
Wes Nolden in front
Episcopal priest controversy In November 2009, Seamans gained international notice by exposing an
All Saints Day liturgy used by an
Episcopal priest in
Harrison, Arkansas. The liturgy "Praises
Mohammed,
Vishnu,
Buddha,
Confucius ..." with the celebrant stating: "All you
Hindu saints; we praise you for holy are you ... All you
Buddhist saints, we praise you for holy are you ..." even calling on "All you Incas of Peru, holy Mayans and Aztecs of Mexico, all you Native children of the sun and stars ..." The Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas (TEC) supported the liturgy under the guise of "inter-faith dialogue". ==Education==