On Sunday, May 31 (Pentecost), I will be flying to Trinity School for Ministry in the Pittsburgh area for a seminar and conference entitled “Ancient Wisdom--- Anglican Futures.” Here is a description of the week from the Trinity website (www.tsm.edu): “How do we receive and pass on the Anglican inheritance in a way that moves us ‘further up and further in’ (a phrase from C.S. Lewis) to a deep understanding of living the Great Tradition? This enormous question is multidirectional. How do Anglican ‘insiders’ welcome young evangelicals, post-evangelicals, and emergents who are attracted to the ‘Great Tradition’? How do inquiring ‘outsiders’ perceive or participate in the distinctive anamesia (memory) of Anglican worship and mission? How can the exchange between insiders and outsiders bear fruit in Anglicanism today? How will this emerging conversation stir the mind and heart of an Anglicanism in renewal?” Throughout the week scholars from within and without our Anglican tradition will be leading us in reflection and discussion, including Simon Chan who preached in our church last year. Following the conference, I will be reading and writing several required papers on it during the second week of June.

Starting June 15, I hope to take two weeks of vacation before returning on Sunday, June 28. While I would like to spend the time sipping a cold drink on the beach or hiking in the mountains, my plan is to spend some serious time working on my thesis project “Who is welcome? Reasons for and consequences of open communion in the Episcopal Church.” Since I will be meeting with my advisor and spending time in the library at Trinity School for Ministry while I attend the conference there, I should be ready to make significant progress on the thesis. In any event, you can count on hearing some new ideas and insights from my study when I return to St. Dunstan’s.

Fr. David Montzingo