Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ
@kenhomansj.bsky.social
Catholic, son, brother, Brother, Jesuit, weightlifter, woodworker, radical for Christ. Proudly putting the SJ into SJW. My tweets≠orgs I am part of. (he/him)
One of my colleagues very kindly turned the base of this cake plate for me as I don't have a lathe (and they terrify me).
Just about time for a final sanding and finishing!
Made from reclaimed walnut and a salvaged glass top.
#woodworking
Just about time for a final sanding and finishing!
Made from reclaimed walnut and a salvaged glass top.
#woodworking
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
One of my colleagues very kindly turned the base of this cake plate for me as I don't have a lathe (and they terrify me).
Just about time for a final sanding and finishing!
Made from reclaimed walnut and a salvaged glass top.
#woodworking
Just about time for a final sanding and finishing!
Made from reclaimed walnut and a salvaged glass top.
#woodworking
Always fun to see the secrets that hide below!
I had an extra piece of walnut from the cake plate I'm working on.
I think I'm going to rip a straight edge, split it in half, and glue the straight edges to make it book matched.
Anybody need a new coffee table?
I had an extra piece of walnut from the cake plate I'm working on.
I think I'm going to rip a straight edge, split it in half, and glue the straight edges to make it book matched.
Anybody need a new coffee table?
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Always fun to see the secrets that hide below!
I had an extra piece of walnut from the cake plate I'm working on.
I think I'm going to rip a straight edge, split it in half, and glue the straight edges to make it book matched.
Anybody need a new coffee table?
I had an extra piece of walnut from the cake plate I'm working on.
I think I'm going to rip a straight edge, split it in half, and glue the straight edges to make it book matched.
Anybody need a new coffee table?
Helping Dad get the rest of the Christmas lights on the roof before the snowstorm shows up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Helping Dad get the rest of the Christmas lights on the roof before the snowstorm shows up.
Laying down lines
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Laying down lines
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
Dealing with some shoulder pain, which made me a bit more wobbly than this should have been, but glad to be back benching around 300.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Dealing with some shoulder pain, which made me a bit more wobbly than this should have been, but glad to be back benching around 300.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
Done and delivered! I built this credenza entirely from reclaimed materials. The body is cherry and the doors are walnut. The stained glass is rescued from a home renovation.
It had lots of learning opportunities. Too many, in fact...
#woodworking #UrbanLumber #ReclaimedLumber
It had lots of learning opportunities. Too many, in fact...
#woodworking #UrbanLumber #ReclaimedLumber
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Done and delivered! I built this credenza entirely from reclaimed materials. The body is cherry and the doors are walnut. The stained glass is rescued from a home renovation.
It had lots of learning opportunities. Too many, in fact...
#woodworking #UrbanLumber #ReclaimedLumber
It had lots of learning opportunities. Too many, in fact...
#woodworking #UrbanLumber #ReclaimedLumber
It's fun when you tell yourself that you'll go to bed on time and then it's almost 2 AM.
Doing final hardware installation, removal, and applying finish took a little longer than expected, but I finished this project just in time to drive it to DC Thursday after class.
Doing final hardware installation, removal, and applying finish took a little longer than expected, but I finished this project just in time to drive it to DC Thursday after class.
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It's fun when you tell yourself that you'll go to bed on time and then it's almost 2 AM.
Doing final hardware installation, removal, and applying finish took a little longer than expected, but I finished this project just in time to drive it to DC Thursday after class.
Doing final hardware installation, removal, and applying finish took a little longer than expected, but I finished this project just in time to drive it to DC Thursday after class.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Still recovering from being sick by breathing sawdust.
Working on this dining cabinet for a good friend.
Got the carcass all cut out and now I'll work on laying out the dowels and joinery.
Made from solid cherry that was cut down to restore a natural prairie.
#LaudatoSi #Jesuit #woodworking
Working on this dining cabinet for a good friend.
Got the carcass all cut out and now I'll work on laying out the dowels and joinery.
Made from solid cherry that was cut down to restore a natural prairie.
#LaudatoSi #Jesuit #woodworking
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Still recovering from being sick by breathing sawdust.
Working on this dining cabinet for a good friend.
Got the carcass all cut out and now I'll work on laying out the dowels and joinery.
Made from solid cherry that was cut down to restore a natural prairie.
#LaudatoSi #Jesuit #woodworking
Working on this dining cabinet for a good friend.
Got the carcass all cut out and now I'll work on laying out the dowels and joinery.
Made from solid cherry that was cut down to restore a natural prairie.
#LaudatoSi #Jesuit #woodworking
In another example of AI ruins everything and is also complete & utter trash:
I was looking for some Norteno or other Mexican-heritage music for our music history discussion.
Instead I found this AI nonsense in which the left gentleman is playing a half-guitar, half-saxophone...
I was looking for some Norteno or other Mexican-heritage music for our music history discussion.
Instead I found this AI nonsense in which the left gentleman is playing a half-guitar, half-saxophone...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In another example of AI ruins everything and is also complete & utter trash:
I was looking for some Norteno or other Mexican-heritage music for our music history discussion.
Instead I found this AI nonsense in which the left gentleman is playing a half-guitar, half-saxophone...
I was looking for some Norteno or other Mexican-heritage music for our music history discussion.
Instead I found this AI nonsense in which the left gentleman is playing a half-guitar, half-saxophone...
The gift/strength I bring to mutual aid and community work is literally my physical strength. I enjoy being strong; but even more so I find a great sense of meaning in being able to do manual work alongside others.
We all bring gifts to liberation work. What's yours?
We all bring gifts to liberation work. What's yours?
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The gift/strength I bring to mutual aid and community work is literally my physical strength. I enjoy being strong; but even more so I find a great sense of meaning in being able to do manual work alongside others.
We all bring gifts to liberation work. What's yours?
We all bring gifts to liberation work. What's yours?
Being #Catholic means care for the common good and especially preferential option for the poor. I get vaccinated to protect those who are immunocompromised, can't receive them, or may not have access.
Don't forget to get your flu and COVID shots!
Don't forget to get your flu and COVID shots!
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Being #Catholic means care for the common good and especially preferential option for the poor. I get vaccinated to protect those who are immunocompromised, can't receive them, or may not have access.
Don't forget to get your flu and COVID shots!
Don't forget to get your flu and COVID shots!
I was nervous about hammering in dowels b/c the body is stained glass. I didn't want impact to cause a crack, bend, etc. So using clamps to get a slow, steady pressure worked perfectly.
I drilled a slightly larger hole in some scrap to give the dowel somewhere to go & avoid tear out. #woodworking
I drilled a slightly larger hole in some scrap to give the dowel somewhere to go & avoid tear out. #woodworking
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I was nervous about hammering in dowels b/c the body is stained glass. I didn't want impact to cause a crack, bend, etc. So using clamps to get a slow, steady pressure worked perfectly.
I drilled a slightly larger hole in some scrap to give the dowel somewhere to go & avoid tear out. #woodworking
I drilled a slightly larger hole in some scrap to give the dowel somewhere to go & avoid tear out. #woodworking
The weather was damp but the spirits were bright at the #NoKings march in downtown St. Louis.
To be Catholic is to care for the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized. So I dutifully put in my Roman collar and rain coat and headed downtown for democracy.
To be Catholic is to care for the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized. So I dutifully put in my Roman collar and rain coat and headed downtown for democracy.
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The weather was damp but the spirits were bright at the #NoKings march in downtown St. Louis.
To be Catholic is to care for the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized. So I dutifully put in my Roman collar and rain coat and headed downtown for democracy.
To be Catholic is to care for the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized. So I dutifully put in my Roman collar and rain coat and headed downtown for democracy.
Today I learned and managed to make some mortise and tenon joints for cabinet doors.
Then managed to waste $100 cutting plexiglass backing to the wrong size...
Decided to apply finish to the coffee table and cutting boards so I wouldn't bang my head on my workbench.
Need a cutting board?
Then managed to waste $100 cutting plexiglass backing to the wrong size...
Decided to apply finish to the coffee table and cutting boards so I wouldn't bang my head on my workbench.
Need a cutting board?
October 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Today I learned and managed to make some mortise and tenon joints for cabinet doors.
Then managed to waste $100 cutting plexiglass backing to the wrong size...
Decided to apply finish to the coffee table and cutting boards so I wouldn't bang my head on my workbench.
Need a cutting board?
Then managed to waste $100 cutting plexiglass backing to the wrong size...
Decided to apply finish to the coffee table and cutting boards so I wouldn't bang my head on my workbench.
Need a cutting board?
A dado a day keeps the fingers away.
Working on the doors for a credenza I'm building.
Working on the doors for a credenza I'm building.
October 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A dado a day keeps the fingers away.
Working on the doors for a credenza I'm building.
Working on the doors for a credenza I'm building.
Incredible. The @nytimes.com wants to be the newspaper of record in America. But in the middle of a constitutional crisis, the movement of federal troops into American cities, a genocide, & a massive war, their top-of-page headlines are about a former president's son & Harvard kids skipping class.
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Incredible. The @nytimes.com wants to be the newspaper of record in America. But in the middle of a constitutional crisis, the movement of federal troops into American cities, a genocide, & a massive war, their top-of-page headlines are about a former president's son & Harvard kids skipping class.
For your amusement:
A friend from way back in high school found this magazine clipping. The city used to have a magazine for teens with its annual "forty under forty" style of list.
I was in it as "Ken: the Activist."
I might still have that tie, and like many ska kids loved a fedora
A friend from way back in high school found this magazine clipping. The city used to have a magazine for teens with its annual "forty under forty" style of list.
I was in it as "Ken: the Activist."
I might still have that tie, and like many ska kids loved a fedora
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For your amusement:
A friend from way back in high school found this magazine clipping. The city used to have a magazine for teens with its annual "forty under forty" style of list.
I was in it as "Ken: the Activist."
I might still have that tie, and like many ska kids loved a fedora
A friend from way back in high school found this magazine clipping. The city used to have a magazine for teens with its annual "forty under forty" style of list.
I was in it as "Ken: the Activist."
I might still have that tie, and like many ska kids loved a fedora
I've had a handful of seizures in the last few days (simple partial--I just lose auditory/speaking, nothing worrisome) that are probably related to fatigue, but I made it to the gym.
I'm not going to compete for a bit, so I'm doing lifts I want (Olympic) instead of those I hate (deadlift).
I'm not going to compete for a bit, so I'm doing lifts I want (Olympic) instead of those I hate (deadlift).
October 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I've had a handful of seizures in the last few days (simple partial--I just lose auditory/speaking, nothing worrisome) that are probably related to fatigue, but I made it to the gym.
I'm not going to compete for a bit, so I'm doing lifts I want (Olympic) instead of those I hate (deadlift).
I'm not going to compete for a bit, so I'm doing lifts I want (Olympic) instead of those I hate (deadlift).
I was exhausted this evening after a really full couple of weeks, especially getting an article done. And I should have gone to bed early.
But I stayed up and sanded this cherry slab that will be a coffee table.
Sprayed it with water to pop the grain overnight, final sand and finish tomorrow!
But I stayed up and sanded this cherry slab that will be a coffee table.
Sprayed it with water to pop the grain overnight, final sand and finish tomorrow!
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I was exhausted this evening after a really full couple of weeks, especially getting an article done. And I should have gone to bed early.
But I stayed up and sanded this cherry slab that will be a coffee table.
Sprayed it with water to pop the grain overnight, final sand and finish tomorrow!
But I stayed up and sanded this cherry slab that will be a coffee table.
Sprayed it with water to pop the grain overnight, final sand and finish tomorrow!
Best captions, go:
"And in this moment, Leo discovered he was not the son of Odin, but that of the Frost Giants"
"And in this moment, Leo discovered he was not the son of Odin, but that of the Frost Giants"
October 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Best captions, go:
"And in this moment, Leo discovered he was not the son of Odin, but that of the Frost Giants"
"And in this moment, Leo discovered he was not the son of Odin, but that of the Frost Giants"
Students give you a funny look when you're rolling down campus with a cart containing building materials, power tools, and an 8' and 6' foot long cross cut saws...
We were doing some material and environmental history today.
We were doing some material and environmental history today.
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Students give you a funny look when you're rolling down campus with a cart containing building materials, power tools, and an 8' and 6' foot long cross cut saws...
We were doing some material and environmental history today.
We were doing some material and environmental history today.
Working on putting together a Black History walking tour of @slu-official.bsky.social for both of my undergrad courses. I'm also creating a guidebook with context, historic photos of the sites, and space for note taking during the tour.
September 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Working on putting together a Black History walking tour of @slu-official.bsky.social for both of my undergrad courses. I'm also creating a guidebook with context, historic photos of the sites, and space for note taking during the tour.