One of the great things about the Dominican Order is its clear mission statement: preaching the Gospel for the salvation of souls. This so inspired me that I was prepared to give up everything I had to enter the Dominicans. Among these things was my interest in mathematical physics – after all, what possible use would a doctorate in operator algebras and conformal field theory be to a Dominican friar? As it turns out, my mathematical physics background has been rather more useful than I had anticipated.