"You know, Dr. Toad, I think Almy got our order wrong!"

"Never mind that now, Eddie, the game's afoot!"

-Flt. Lt. Roy "Doctor" Toad and Ens. Fr. Eddie "Fastball" Fassbinder in Sinkers (2007)


The Hits Just Keep on Coming


Toads and Toadettes,


When the doctor started a little exposition on seminaries, he never expected that there would be so much fodder for the old canon. Thank all of you for your help on this, particularly an unnamed padre who advised this morning that one institution we hadn't yet named apparently disappeared in a puff of proverbial smoke following the beginning of this series. As soon as we have them printed, we'll be sending you all a Barking Toad t-shirt. Yeah, right, for $16.95+s&h! If Bill O'Reilly can do it, so can we. Rawk, rawk rawk!


The latest duck in the barrel is


St. Alcuin House Academy
1383 130th Avenue NE
Blaine, Minnesota 55434
http://www.stalcuinhouse.org/id1.html

St. A's holds accreditation with...drum roll, please...the Oxford Educational Network/Wolsey Hall as a distance learning Christian academy. In the words of John Cleese, "There's a giveaway!"


We took a hop over the website sent by the alert reader (the t-shirt will look great on you...$16.95, pally). St. A's offers "course work through distance learning, and in residence at varied locations. We work in close association with ACTS International College which provides quality classroom Christian education. " (looks like a bit of interlocking management with ACTS) They don't specify those residential "locations", but their website more than implies relationshps with Nashotah House (an Episcopal church seminary) and Oxford University. Of course, "[f]or student-scholars studying at the University of Oxford, Nashotah House, or other institutions, there are additional fees and travel expenses paid by the student directly to these institutions." You bet! That would be tuition, fees and other "extras" because these real institutions for some reason don't have a financial arrangement with St. A's.


Most of the "academic programs" appear to be based on the resale of audio materials from The Teaching Company, a legitimate purveyor of taped university lectures. Looks like one might wish to eliminate the middle man and buy direct--it will leave you more money for that Barking Toad t-shirt.


If anyone has something to say about this or any other of these fine named institutions, please send a message via info@planetanglican.com You'll be glad you did.



Yr. Obed. Serv.,




R. Toad, DD, LSMFT
(Only kidding about the t-shirts...sort of...)