Father Ted asked me to talk about vocations today at the end of liturgy. He gave me a few weeks to prepare, and I had plenty of ideas, but it took a long time to come together. I didn’t know what the structure would be until I started writing. But then it all came out […]

Well, I have three papers looming over my head, needing to be begun or finished, but I was so sleepy after getting home from church I decided to take a walk around the lake. I’ve posted lots of pictures of the lake south of seminary, which you can see as you walk across the field […]

Just down the road from the seminary, there is a Free Methodist church with a readerboard out front. Whoever manages it like to post pithy sayings. The pithy saying changes every month or so. There is a custom at St. Tikhon’s that any homily given for homiletics class should somehow incorporate that day’s pithy saying.
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A lightning storm came up just as we were starting vespers last night. We could see it coming for a while, but it didn’t really hit until just as the service began. When we came out, the air was fresh and the ground was wet. I happened to have my camera. Here we are walking […]

I was supposed to give a presentation on Isaiah 12–15 yesterday, but it got delayed. The center of the presentation is a reference to Lucifer in chapter 14. Since he is the “morning star,” I used the extra time to add a mathematical explanation for Venus’s behavior in the morning sky. For a long time […]

I just returned from Emmaus, where I spent Holy Week and Pascha. I went down on Lazarus Saturday, and on Palm Sunday I met Dn. Andrew. Bishop Thomas was in town, attending services at St. Paul’s, St. George’s, and St. Philip’s. We followed him around for the first few days, then on Wednesday I drove […]

Wednesday, Dn. Andrew and I drove down to visit Gettysburg. I wrote up the story with lots of pictures.

Thusday, Dn. Andrew and I took a day trip to downtown Philadelphia. I wrote up our adventures with lots of pictures.