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# State of the Patrologist
- URL: https://thepatrologist.com/state-of-the-patrologist/
- Published: 2015-04-27T02:16:28.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-27T02:16:28.000Z
- Author: Seumas Macdonald
- Tags: Updates, #Migrated-1784156034836, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 22:54

No, not state of the Projects. That would be in a few days. Today I'm just going to write about what's been happening, what's coming up, etc..

On the weekend I flew back home from Mongolia, where I taught Greek exegesis of Ephesians over two weeks. It was a good time, both the teaching and the chance to reconnect to many friends, Mongolians and foreigners, in country. I was also glad to be among brothers and sisters at my two churches there. I have another trip planned for September.

Obviously posting has been slow here; I have a few more posts to work through talking about figurative language. And an insight or two on language learning based on my recent trip.

Disappointingly, I missed out on grant money to head to SBL this year, so I'm now looking at self-funding my way over there. I suspect that's where most of my tutoring money will be directed for the next six months. I think, having already written a paper, and just the timing of presenting this year with a section theme that is spot-on for my thesis topic, it is probably worth the money (if conferences are ever worth the money).

I'm really hopeful to get the next Patristic Reader done within the next 2 weeks. I would say 1, but that may be too ambitious. It's quite close to finishing. There has been no real progress with my cover design though, which is a little frustrating. That is almost all that's holding back print editions.

Tomorrow (or today, depending on when you get this), Latin 1 with Conversational Koine Institute kicks off. I'm working over the material for the first lesson this very day, and it will be a lot of fun. If you've been thinking about some Conversational and Introductory Latin, don't miss out, [go and enrol now](www.conversationalkoine.com/p/learn-classical-latin.html).

No more trips planned until August, so looking forward to settling down and writing a chapter or two of the thesis over the next 3 months.