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Chip Prehn

The Rev. Dr. Walter L. “Chip” Prehn was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1985, and served as 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.

A Good Shepherd

Chip Prehn
October 23, 2019
Commentary, Contributors, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
This good and true shepherd’s interest in and care for all of us who became his “sons” was surely a sign to us that the Good Shepherd had plans for us and was counting on us to be His disciples.

What’s Going On With David Brooks?

Chip Prehn
August 21, 2019
Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Second Mountain shows that Brooks’s odyssey in faith will be complicated. But why shouldn’t a sincere conversion in twenty-first-century America be complicated or unconventional?

How to Be Perfect

Chip Prehn
May 21, 2019
Ethics, The Episcopal Church
The command to be perfect is only a deeper statement of the startling ethics Jesus presents in the beginning of the chapter in the beatitudes.

Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet

Chip Prehn
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

Chip Prehn
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

Chip Prehn
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

Chip Prehn
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

Chip Prehn
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.
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