So 12 Benedictines and a Franciscan walk into a bar…
I am at the end of my first Reading Week of the spring semester at Yale Divinity School, a week given to seminarians to catch up on reading. But I’m…
Saved by spirituals and the God of small things….
It can be an incredible gift to know what one is meant to do in life, what one needs to do to get there, and where one can accomplish it.…
And the CPE interviews begin!
I thought I would have a hard time getting a CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) placement this summer because we were told to get our applications in by December. Unfortunately, we…
Why theology matters
It’s jarring to listen to the news from Haiti, the utter desperation of the situation there, and to wait for news from a seminary classmate whose father is gravely ill,…
From one world to another…
I am back from eight wonderful days in sunny California, bouncing between Sacramento and the Bay Area and visits with friends, sisters, brothers in law, nieces, and nephews. We were…
The final, final, final exam
I was a bit embarrassed in church yesterday because our priest (very kindly, I might add) asked all the students in the congregation to stand up so that the congregation…
Odd ways in which seminary learning is useful….
I have just completed a grueling two weeks of writing three essays, with a combined page count of 48 pages, for two classes. One was on the Sacred and Secular…
A Day in the Day
Here I am, sitting in the Day Missions Reading Room at the Yale Divinity School Library. I used to think the name referred to this being the room where one…
Thomas Aquinas’s prayer for students!
This week is the second of three reading weeks given to seminarians at Yale. The idea is to have time to catch up on reading, work on papers, and so…
Ecclesiastes at the Yale-Harvard game
As a way of celebrating two of my classes’ coursework being done, I went to the Yale-Harvard game with a friend today. One can’t park at the stadium, so one…
Notorious sinners?
Sometimes, seminarians dive into heady discussions in the YDS commuter lounge, so called because there are lockers, a piano, and several love seats and tables where people can rest and…
Why I haven’t blogged…
I’m sitting in the large common room of YDS with sunlight streaming in the large windows, looking at the painting of H. Richard Niebuhr (who taught at Yale). I am…
Todo lo que hicieron por uno de mis hermanos, aun por el mas pequeno, lo hicieron por mi
Well, what a week. I realize I say that every week, but really, seminary is pretty exciting and intense. I had two big tests last week: a midterm in New…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
In short, many good and bad things happened these past ten days. On the good side, I was treated to two incredibly beautiful (and free) choral performances, both sponsored by…
