Contributors Chip Prehn

Chip Prehn

The Rev. Dr. Walter L. “Chip” Prehn is Headmaster of St. John’s Parish Day School in Ellicott City, Maryland. Ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1985, Prehn was a parish priest for twelve years. These years included a vigorous teaching ministry, including work as Instructor in Historical Theology at the Bishop’s School for Ministry in San Antonio 1993-1996 (Anglicanism 1700 to Present). Prehn responded to a powerful call to enter school work in 1996. The late Jennings Waggoner directed him at the University of Virginia, where he earned a Ph.D. in History. Prehn is an authority on the educator William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796-1877), whose school-making movement founded in 1828 gave rise to some of the premier “Church schools” in the United States. Dr. Prehn has a deep commitment to the classical Anglican vision (especially that of Richard Hooker) and is an avid student of the Oxford Movement and Church Revival on both sides of the Atlantic. For seven years, he was Headmaster of Trinity School in West Texas, and his Headmaster’s Journal was widely read by other school leaders. He is currently working on two novels and is a published poet.

Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet

March 27, 2019

Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church

Wendell Berry, this great Bard — as great an American voice as Thoreau’s or Whitman’s — assumes that the reality before and all around us in nature is infinitely complex and therefore cannot be fully comprehended by any human intellect.

Faith in Learning, Muhlenberg, and a Catholic Education

January 31, 2019

Commentary, The Episcopal Church

Central to the Church school in Muhlenberg's vision is the authority of the headmaster or rector of the school.

Memorials and Magnanimity

October 1, 2018

Commentary, The Episcopal Church

The uneasy history of my family leads me to ask hard questions about history itself.

Walker Percy, Doctor of Malaise and Desire

August 16, 2018

Books, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church

How can the individual find sanity in a sick and dying culture?

Walker Percy: Deep-South Aristocrat

August 7, 2018

Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church

It is clear from Percy’s novels and other published work that he could only have been from the Deep South.

Walker Percy and the Search for Meaning

August 2, 2018

Books, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church

Humanity’s search for understanding, meaning, and purpose haunted Percy and is a major theme of his oeuvre.