Hello! My name is Dane Boston, and I am excited and honored to serve as the seminarian intern at St. Paul’s this academic year. I am enjoying getting to know this parish community, and I thought I’d share a little about myself.  I got married on August 1, 2009. My wife Debby and I were undergraduates together at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and graduated in the spring of 2008. After being apart last year while she taught English on a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Germany and I began my studies at Yale Divinity School, we are now happily settling into an apartment in New Haven, and she is tackling her first year at Quinnipiac University’s School of Law.

While I am originally from Dunedin, Florida, I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church and entered the ordination process at R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church in Lexington. The strength and warmth of the community at R.E. Lee supported and inspired me through my college years. My involvement in many aspects of parish life introduced me, in a limited way, to the joys and challenges of life in a small but self-confident parish. As I began the search for an internship placement, I found myself drawn to St. Paul’s by both the sense that I would find here a nurturing, supportive community and by the exciting chance I would have to experience the unique characteristics of this place.  I am glad my work here is underway. It will be my great privilege to learn and grow through service to this parish.