I’m only formalizing here what’s already happened… I’m not going to be around much for the next few weeks. I’m making the last big push to finish up the dissertation (!!), have a large conference presentation in October that I haven’t begun an adequate start on yet, and have some pressing matters on the homefront to deal with.

Carry on, all. Don’t let the people in purple do anything truly dumb…

(And say a prayer for the soul of Marion Hatchett when next you’re praying for souls. I can’t say I agree with him on everything, but he was a learned and gifted man who did much for Episcopal liturgy.)

As some on FaceBook may have seen, M had a cycling accident on Saturday and fractured her elbow. That makes me a bit busier than normal. In addition, things at work are getting hot, dissertation revisions need to be done, and I just got word that a conference proposal has been accepted.

I’ve got some thoughts on a couple of items, Scripture and Creation as the dual garments of God by way of Henri de Lubac and then some reflections on HWHM by way of Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium and attending documents.

They’ll be on the way eventually.

…I might actually produce some posts of substance soon.

These have been few are far between recently for a number of reasons. One of which being many of the posts I draft that contain actual content end up being sent to Jim for the Episcopal Cafe.

However, I’m having a hnkering to write down some theses for debate concerning Anglican/Episcopal Liturgy that might draw some discussion.

I’ll not be posting much or be online much for a while. Some major projects are in the works that are demanding my attention.

One of them is moving. Our household will be leaving our current area and will head up towards the general Washington/Baltimore area later this summer. That alone will keep us busy in addition to securing housing, employment, schools, etc.

Items will still appear at the Cafe and I’ll note them here, but I doubt much else will appear…

I’ll also give what I hope to be my final foot update: three months to the day my doctor took me off of all antibiotics. I still have some pain—especially in mornings and evenings—but the orthopedist said that is caused by a weakening of the foot ligature where the infection was. He said it should tighten back up and the pain will go away in another six to eight weeks. I was hoping to start running again, but he said no running until after July 4th which is unfortunately especially given local traditions. Nevertheless, good news overall.

I’m starting a new blog. It can be found here. It will be my “professional” blog and will restrict itself to purely academic matters of medievalism and Scripture interpretation. There are occasional items that might get cross-posted here but, for the most part, they will be distinct.

I’m doing this for a couple of reasons.

One is so actual medievalists who come by on occasion won’t have to wonder if I’m actually going to say something they’re interested in or just rant some more about the Anglican Communion and its woes.  Dr. Nokes has probably heard more about Anglicans than he’d care to know…

Another is that with a separate blog for such material, I’ll be more likely to actually post material there.

Another is that it will allow me to focus this blog more on the direction it seems to be taking which has liturgical spirituality at its heart.

So–pop over, check it out; it’s still a work in progress, of course, but hopefully it’ll grow into something interesting too.

• Yes, I’m still alive. Barely. But I’m buried under a mound of crap.
• I did finally send off one thing that should have been done a month ago. It’s a project M and I are doing together. More on that one later, perhaps.
• I have 217 feeds waiting for me in Bloglines. That means y’all are still alive and writing. Good news, but I fear they’ll continue to pile up for a while. I may be mostly away until the end of Lent or so.
• I do have something in the works for the Cafe so I’ll still be marginally about.
• Thomas, I fear I don’t have any other good recommendations on Anglican lectionaries. There are a few historical works out there on the BCP but they seem few and far between. The only two things in my library that are even close to the topic are Marion Hatchett’s Commentary on the Prayerbook and Martin Dudley’s The Collect in Anglican Liturgy: Texts and Sources 1549-1989. Christopher, M, or others may be able to point you to some other, better stuff. The single most instructive thing I’ve found to do is to peruse Chad Wohler’s amazing BCP site and to print out various liturgies/tables/etc. and to study them in parallel.
• Lil’ H is no longer wandering the halls at night and—for the moment at least—has stopped stripping off her diaper at night. Instead, she and Lil’ G are bunking down together—at Lil’ G’s insistence. As the big sister, G sleeps on the outside so H can’t roll out…
• Enough procrastinating–back to work. Y’all take care of the Anglican Communion while I’m away, ya hear?

I make it a policy not to talk about my day job here. I mention it now to say that I’m changing jobs to a short-term contracting position that will assist us financially and give us flexibility about where we go at its end.

Posting may well become lighter…

On the other hand…

I’m still racing to get the dissertation finished up. I’ve tried several things that haven’t necessarily helped. My director has told me that writing even a few sentences a day will help move me through a dry spell to some productive writing. Furthermore, Dr. Nokes has made a call for more medievalists to actually post on medieval stuff. Too, Dr. Drout, working on recording the Paris Psalter has mentioned the need for more awareness of liturgical issues among Anglo-Saxonists. Pulling these together, I’m thinking I may work out some sections of some of my chapters here.

Parts of my dissertation work with Benedictine Revival Anglo-Saxon liturgical practice to illumine how these liturgies impact Scripture interpretation; since my dissertation’s readership is primarily New Testament scholars and Anglo-Saxonists without specialized liturgical training, I’m including some introductory portions to orient my readers. I may post some sections here to help move things forward.