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Luis asked me to preach today, and when I saw the Gospel reading I thought really?  The parish wine expert is not going to tackle “I am the true vine?” I have learned a lot in my time so far as an Assistant at St. John’s…important life skills like: good wine does not come inContinueContinue reading “Vines and Roots”

The past week of my life has been spent taking a massive test.  The Episcopal Church requires that each person preparing for ordained ministry be examined in the areas of: Holy Scripture, Contemporary Society, Christian Theology & Missiology, Liturgy & Church Music, Christian Ethics & Moral Theology, the Theory & Practice of Ministry, and Church History.ContinueContinue reading “OWLs for Priests, The GOE (General Ordination Exams)”

Our chapel burned down this fall.  It was an accident; no one was to blame, but it burned.  I was on the seminary lawn as the smoke and flames reached heavenward, and I had a simultaneous feeling of grief and anticipation.  The loss was profound.  It upset our worship life in ways we are stillContinueContinue reading “On the importance of being a liturgical nomad.”

I’ll be presenting at a “Fridays at the Seminary” day long conference here at Virginia Seminary tomorrow.  I’ll be referring a great deal to “new monasticism.”  This is a paper I wrote, which I think is a fair introduction to the topic.  This only covers “residential” models, so it’s a bit limited, but a decentContinueContinue reading “New Monasticism Paper”