Going Public

I was ordained a priest in Christ’s one, holy, catholic and apostolic church on December 3rd, 2011. It’s no coincidence that this is also when I began my blog.

I thought about blogging for the last five years as I went through the Episcopal ordination process, but I never had the courage. I was scared that if I had a blog, I might publish something that would get in the way of my being ordained. A vocation to ordained ministry has been in me for twenty-plus years, more than half my life. I couldn’t imagine jeopardizing my ability to fulfill that call. So I published nothing.

Then, hands were laid on my head, and I was named priest. I put up this blog very quietly. I didn’t blog regularly, because of course I didn’t have any readers. And I never told anyone I was blogging, so it was more or less impossible for anyone to find me.

That changes today. Thanks to the presence of God among the thirty-eight people I spent the weekend with at an event titled, “Mortal, Can These Bones Live?” (Ezekiel 37), I’m going public with this blog.

I’m still scared that I will publish something that pushes the envelope a little too far for someone who reads this. I know that the internet is where civility came to die. But if I am to be priest of Christ I cannot be a handmaiden of fear. Too much is at stake in the life of the church and the world.

For those who read this, I ask your prayers. Leave a comment, and I promise you mine.