Welcome to the community! Welcome to formation that will prepare you for ministry in large cities, small towns, colleges, or in the military or medical field. At Michaelmas, obedience, community and rule of life, began and will continue to mark the start of the academic year with a ceremony which gathers the academic community, and confers membership.

Requiem Mass | The Reverend Dr. Steven Peay | 20th Dean of Nashotah House Theological Seminary | Homily Delivered by Garwood P. Anderson, Ph.D., President and Provost, Professor of New Testament, Nashotah House

A gathering of clergy and people of the church will no doubt recognize those words from our Burial Office. I trust you would also agree with me that, were it not for their familiarity, they are an unusual combination of words. In colloquial English, “sure and certain” . . .  and . . . “hope” would be viewed as something like opposites, a study in contrasts. They would not normally make up a singular phrase. In our everyday language, “hope” is something more like a “wish,” and “sure and certain” are words used for what our empirical faculties can prove, in which case a “resurrection” is a remnant of wishful thinking from a people less empirical than ourselves.

Nashotah House loves to hear stories about their sons and daughters who have graduated. If you would like to share your story, please email Jim Watkins (jwatkins@nashotah.edu). Today, we are sitting down with the Rev. Henry Doyle to learn about where God has called him after Nashotah House. We hope that his story connects with your own and that it inspires you to look for God’s grace in your life.

By The Rev. Meghan Farr, ‘13

Hildegaard could not bear to come before God without a song. She believed that intellect lived in human voices and that song had a way of making souls vigilant. Who was this passionate abbess who wasn’t afraid “to teach and admonish others in all wisdom,” even in the face of excommunication, but could not bear the thought of coming before God without a song?

The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D.

The question “Have you understood all this?” first assumes something quite natural to the way our mind works. How many times have you had a book in front of you, presumably reading, only to realize that you’re not quite sure when you stopped taking in anything from the page? There are many reasons why this might happen, but the point is that it’s not unusual for us to hear and not understand, to read but not comprehend. The challenge comes to us just as much with learning the teachings of Jesus and the words of Scripture as with the worship of God in the liturgy.

By The Rev. Steven G. Rindahl

Founder and Director, Warriors on the Way

When a soul has been damaged by war, and you want to be a part of the healing process, what do you do? With nearly two decades of persistent conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as many other smaller conflicts around the globe, the United States once again has a sizable combat veteran community (yet still only a fraction of 1% of the total US population). Unlike Vietnam, where the draft allowed for a steady flow of new recruits and most service members only deployed once, the new generation of combat veterans are members of an “All-Volunteer” military.

RADVO Digital Session | September 19, 2020 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

This digital session comprises a talk by the Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, followed by an interview segment that includes Carrie Headington, Canon Evangelist, Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. The session will conclude with practical application from clergy across the globe.

Fr. Tom Winslow referred to his work at Ground Zero as a "ministry of presence." A chaplain for the Milwaukee FBI office, he spent a week serving in Lower Manhattan in November 2001, at St. Paul's Chapel, a short walk from the World Trade Center site. Fr. Winslow presided over daily Mass and talked to law enforcement officers who were dealing with the unimaginable.

Vice President Mike Pence led a discussion on September 4, 2020, with college presidents, leaders in higher education, state and local leaders, the Secretary of Education, and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force to brief them on the principles contained in the recently released “Recommendations for College Students.” These principles are intended to keep schools open while mitigating community spread.

The Rev. Canon Aaron Zook, ’12

I would come to know Fr. Peay quite well over the following years. Bede+, (so called by some in recognition of the monastic name he was given many years ago) was my professor, but we quickly became friends. We shared a mutual love of good preaching, good beer, and Canon Law. He introduced me to Sertillanges, Toulmin, and Father Brown (I always thought of him as Brown and myself as Flambeau.) He grounded my philosophy of Anglicanism in a well-worn phrase, “Nothing new!” (He was always quick to point out that whatever anyone wanted to try in the Church had been "tried before by some sweet saint, so why reinvent, when one can simply build on their good works!”)

“This is our first nomination for a Gramophone award,” said Dr. Williams. “It is an honor to have been nominated, as these awards are based on artists’ merit and quality, rather than popularity.” The ensemble’s growing discography includes two GRAMMY-nominated releases and albums that have topped the "best of" lists of The New Yorker, Gramophone, and BBC Music Magazine. New York Polyphony was twice nominated for a GRAMMY award (2013, 2014), under consideration for this recording. 

By Elisabeth Kincaid, Ph.D. 

Here Dr. Kincaid asks us to consider the hard sayings of Jesus and to understand that the “reality of God’s presence should make us uncomfortable … it should jolt us out of our established patterns.”

A Visitation will be held on Saturday September 5, 2020 at the All Saints Cathedral, 818 E Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202, from 10 AM until 11:45 AM (CDT) Due to the Covid-19 pandemic a PRIVATE Funeral Service will be held at 1 PM. Father Steven Peay's Funeral Service can be live streamed (provided here) on Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 1 PM (CDT).

A Review by The Rev. Doran Stambaugh, SSC, ’05 on N.T. Wright’s, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and its Aftermath

The importance of lament for the Christian is often overlooked in favor of some amorphous obligation to perpetual optimism. N.T. Wright does not just give us pause to consider the biblical concept of lament, he gives us permission to do it! Lamentation is not just a theme from past episodes of salvation history; it is an essential ingredient for anyone living in the tension of that which is and that which is to come.