[Magdalen] odd email

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I have known of a number of bishops with healthy friendships with those priests under their jurisdiction. It sounds as if your bishop may have a great deal of respect for you Jon. Is he the same bishop who ordained you?
Lynn 



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On Oct 3, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

Why can't your bishop be your friend?

> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Listmates,
> 
> I recently had a brief email correspondence with my bishop.  He ended his
> response to my inquiry with "God bless, my friend."  This took me aback and
> I wanted to reply with "You can be my bishop, but you can't be my friend."
> 
> Proper boundaries or am I over-reacting to his poor choice of words?
> 
> Sign me confused
>