Category: Seminary
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A marathon, not a sprint: General Ordination Exams
Tomorrow through Saturday I will be taking General Ordination Exams administered by examining chaplains appointed by the Episcopal Church. My buddy Mike wrote a nice summary last year, comparing the test to OWLs. The comparison that springs to mind for me, though, was the Ph.D. qualifying exams I took in my first year of grad…
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King Jed
I’m in Media, PA, visiting my friends Adam Kradel (Rector of Christ Church, Media) and Melissa Wilcox (former chaplain at St. Francis House). And this is their youngest son, Josiah. I just had to share. In case you’re keeping score at home: After meeting the vestry of my new field ed parish outside of Baltimore…
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Spring Update
Well, that’s a wrap for the first year of seminary. Man, did it go fast. If you want the short version, it was a challenging but formative and faith-deepening experience. On the whole, very positive, very blessed. Click below for some more details and information about my new gig in New York for the summer.
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On the Marq, Finally
A while back, I lamented all the difficulties involved in establishing a paperless seminary workflow. Lots of people chime in, but in the end we didn’t locate an ideal way to do the main task: mark up PDFs (with highlighting, marginalia, etc.). During that process (though not on the comments–perhaps via Twitter?), someone told me…
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Football Photos, Thomist Thoughts
You could probably do worse for an update on what I’ve been doing at seminary the last couple weeks than to check out two digital snapshots. The first is actually a collection of snapshots. The VTS Fighting Friars went 1-2 at the Luther Bowl in Gettysburg a few weeks back, ending our season 2-2. But…
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The Ongoing Pursuit of a Paperless Seminary Reading Workflow
In seminary, we read a lot. Like, probably more than we do anything else–including playing intramural sports (a surprising but deeply rewarding time sink), praying (though we’ve received tremendous support in this respect), sleeping (at least it feels that way), and complaining (a necessary thing sometimes, let me tell you). And–as any humanities major knows…
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(Video) Greetings from Alexandria
Well, I’ve emerged from the minor ordeal that was finishing up a master’s thesis (an interesting process that probably deserves further reflection at another time), recovering from same, and moving across the country. So I wanted to start checking in (hopefully regularly) about my somewhat different new digs and educational context. Most of you know,…