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The Plight of the Protestant Scholar

February 5th, 2026 | 10 min read

By John Ahern

This February, our fledgling Christian study center in Princeton, the Coverdale House, will begin reading through Luther’s Large Catechism with around 15 students. It’s a sort of Beta launch for our study center—Beta because we are doing it primarily so we can listen carefully for that “click” that happens when you get the perfect product-market fit. Each Monday evening, we’ll get together for dinner, a short prayer service of Psalms, other Scripture, and appointed collects, and then we get to dive into the primary text. It will be facilitated by two graduate students from the Religion Department, Onsi Kamel and John Walker, and we’re delighted that the renowned Phil Cary from Eastern University will stop by and give us his expertise in April. So I fully expect to hear the “click” aforementioned.

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John Ahern

John Ahern (PhD, Princeton University) is the Director of the Coverdale House.

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