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2007-2008 was my first year at The Hill and my 25th of classroom teaching. I grew up in Culver, Indiana (a town my family founded in 1844), and was graduated from Culver Military Academy in 1971. I have an A.B. in English cum laude from Harvard College, an A.M. in English from Indiana University, an M.A.R. in theology summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School, a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, an M.M.S. and Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame, and did Clinical Pastoral Education at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Having spent most of my career as an English teacher and a chaplain in independent schools in Indiana, Louisiana and Missouri, I was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church on the feast of St. Bede the Venerable, May 25, 2007. I am a Fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation, and have published academic articles on a number of topics, from ethics to art history: but my specialties are the biblical commentaries of St. Bede and the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, including, most recently, articles for The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Thanks to a friend who owns a publishing company, I've also written a book of poetry, Falconry and Other Poems, and a fantasy novel, Rough Magicke, set in a mid-western boarding school. When I'm not reading or writing, I'm likely to be working on the wiring of my N-scale model railroad. Send e-mail to The Rev. John Houghton, Ph.D.