ordination

We took some good steps. But we are too afraid to name certain truths.

Luke is in a maximum security prison. He wants to be an Episcopal priest.

How American hostility toward Muslims has shaped my pastoral vocation

Six ordained people tell their stories

J. Philip Wogaman tried to surrender his ordination. Would this have helped?

There are many people with whom I have not had an affair. Billions. There is also one man in particular.

As I prepared to be ordained recently, my mind kept returning to the people in my life who might be perplexed by this decision. I have friends and colleagues who wonder, quite justly, what the church has to offer that one cannot find elsewhere. I thought about how I might describe what pulls me toward ministry and the church in particular.

It’s been a long time since Mr. Show with Bob and David has been on HBO, but there are a few sketches that come to mind even now. Especially when I read about the PC(USA) in the news. In particular, "The Fairsley Difference."

Rites that include prostration make a striking impression. It's not often that one sees a fellow human in an act of total self-surrender.

Emily Scott had an idea: what if young adults got together for a weekly agape feast? Soon St. Lydia’s was born--but Scott was not ordained.

You might be on a committee that thinks that a candidate needs that extra training before they ought to be ordained. They could use some time in a hospital setting or in a real world setting before they earn that REV before their name. If you are, then let me tell you something that the seminary student under your care can’t tell you: students can’t afford it any longer.