Sorry for my month-long absence; it’s been a wild month or so here at VTS. I hope to make up for it by putting off my final Hebrew studying to tell you a bit about first quarter and share a few photos. Enjoy!
The weather was a lot like it was at Crazylegs 2009 in Madison.
Lined up for a blitz, I think. See the rest of the really excellent pictures (by my friend Cayce Ramey) here.
Second-quarter books! (With Kermit, for scale. Special thanks to Trinity Church for helping me pay for them!)
There are some beautiful fall colors just out the back door of Price Hall (yes, this Price, who apparently wrote one of my favorite prayers in the ’79 BCP).
Kristie and me by the WWII memorial on a beautiful afternoon over Columbus Day weekend.
Hey everybody, this instalment of the video blog includes a request for tourist destinations for me to take the folks this weekend. Please chime in in the comments if you have favorite places. Thanks!
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, I think, that I’ve started studies at Virginia Theological Seminary with the eventual hope of becoming an Episcopal priest. I’ve had a week or so to get settled here, and it’s definitely starting to feel enough like home to overcome the effects of the waning post-move adrenaline.
I’m sure I’ll have plenty of thoughts to share about this place, but for now let it suffice to say that a big part of why I was so excited about coming here is that the school seemed genuinely committed to the importance of formation in community and to fostering an atmosphere conducive to that work. I’m thankful that so far it has not disappointed.
Anyway, I was saying to a friend of mine before I left that I somehow felt like video blogging might be an especially good way to communicate some of my experience down here. I haven’t totally figured out why I think that or whether I’m right, but see below for a minor dipping-in-of-toes to that ocean. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you’d like to know about my life or studies down here. I’d love to try to stay connected in as authentic a way as possible–even if I do look and feel a little silly.
