[Magdalen] Me too!
Brian Reid
reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Tue Mar 10 03:34:36 UTC 2020
I have a lot of records from the first 10 years of the mailing lists.
Here's something from May 1994. Since the Magdalen list runs from my
computers, I can get away with sending a large message like this.
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Melissa Aaron (mdaaron at students.wisc.edu)
USA: Wisconsin (Madison)
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Robert Adams (meadams at ecuvm1.bitnet)
USA: North Carolina (Greenville)
No biography on file
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E. Jason Albert (ejalbert at jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov)
USA: Washington DC/Maryland
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Liz Allen (liz at grian.cps.altadena.ca.us)
USA: California (Los Angeles)
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Brooks Anderson (brooks4002 at aol.com)
USA: California (Los Angeles)
No biography on file
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Fritz Anderson (fritza at well.sf.ca.us)
USA: California (San Francisco)
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Ken Anderson (kenneth77 at delphi.com)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
No biography on file
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Stephen Arpee (cwow at gwuvm.gwu.edu)
USA: Washington DC
No biography on file
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Matthew Asnip (asnip at crl.com)
USA: California (San Francisco)
No biography on file
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Bob Atchison (atchison at apple.com)
USA: California (San Jose)
No biography on file
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Renee Autry (jrautry at samford.bitnet)
USA: Alabama (Birmingham)
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Fr. Jim Aycock (aycock at micf.nist.gov)
USA: Maryland (Annapolis)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I was born Episcopalian and raised same. Entered the RCC at the time
of my first marriage. Was ordained to the diaconate and served both
parttime and fulltime for seven years. I was accepted as an
Anglican
deacon two years ago and was ordained to the priesthood last year.
I
am affiliated with a small jurisdiction, The Traditional Episcopal
Church. In addition to serving a parish in Annapolis, MD, this week
(12/19) my wife and I are beginning a new parish/mission in Laurel,
MD. Please pray for it, St Julian's.
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Harriet E. Baber (baber at usdcsv.acusd.edu)
USA: California (San Diego)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I'm Harriet Baber, Johns Hopkins Ph.D. and currently Associate
Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, a Roman
Catholic college. My research is in central areas of analytic
philosophy. I teach symbolic logic, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
and various other things occasionally. I live in Chula Vista, a
suburb of San Diego, with my husband, 3 kids and 2 cats, Roger,
John,
Paul, Elizabeth, Tom and Catherine respectively. We (the first five
of the above) belong to St. John's, Chula Vista, where I sing in the
choir and do some other stuff. I'm a member of the Confraternity of
the blessed Sacrament and a Macintosh user.
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Ed Bailey (bailey at hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
USA: Texas (Austin)
No biography on file
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Gary R. Ballis (garygeodad at aol.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Lee Alton Barford (barford at hpllab.hpl.hp.com)
USA: California (San Jose)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am an inquirer into Anglicanism, having been attending an
Episcopal
church since January. I have a PhD in computer science and work in
Hewlett-Packard's corporate R&D labs.
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James Barnette (jlbjlb at delphi.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Laura Kate Barrett (lkbarrett at aol.com)
USA: California (San Diego)
No biography on file
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Peter M. Barry (pmbarry at delphi.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Deborah E. Baxter (n9042912 at gonzo.cc.wwu.edu)
USA: West Virginia (Morgantown)
No biography on file
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Jo Ann Bell (joabel at hsl.hsl.ecu.edu)
USA: North Carolina (Greenville)
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Stephen T. Benner (sbenner at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
USA: Ohio (Columbus)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I've been a member of this list for well over a year now, although
I've only been actively contributing since September '93.
I was raised post Vatican II Roman Catholic in central Illinois and
after many frustrating years (coinciding with my adolescence) in a
charismatic-oriented RC parish, I finally discovered my home in the
Episcopal Church. This process of discovery was coupled with my own
coming out as a gay man, which I finally did a year or so after
becoming Anglican.
After receiving a BA from Illinois State and a year on fellowship in
Germany, I've been in graduate school at The Ohio State University
since Fall '91. I earned my M.A. in German last Spring (1993) and am
now working on my PhD in the same field. (I hope to take my exams by
next Christmas.)
I have been living in a committed relationship with my partner Keith
for almost six years. We celebrated our relationship with vows and a
High Mass after I returned from Germany.
I have been involved in several different parishes in the 9 years
that I have been a member of the Episcopal Church. Most of the
changes were brought on by moves to new academic institutions. Our
first parish experience in Columbus was disastrous and resulted in
our finally having to leave that church a year ago this month. We
have become nominal members of another parish in town, but right now
I'm too spiritually vulnerable to get involved in a parish.
The past year outside of parish life has not been all negative,
however. In fact, I have found it to be one of the most spiritually
rewarding and mature decisions I have ever made. I have a deeper
sense of my calling. Eventually I (or we) will head back to active
parish life, although I doubt that it will be here in Columbus.
Right
now, however, ANGLICAN provides a quasi-parish for me (and, I
suspect, for many others) in my time of transition.
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David Benson (dave at fcrc-next.ecs.wustl.edu)
USA: Missouri (St. Louis)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I was brought up as the youngest child of Lutheran missionaries in
China. Came back to US at age 12 in time for WWII. Started at a
Lutheran College where I discovered that questions re the faith were
not welcome. Because of a sister and brother-in-law there and my
interest in English history, spent a year at Trinity College
Toronto.
There through the influence of RSK Seeley, Provost, who taught me
that no questions were unwelcome, and through my discovery of
Evensong, I began my journey to Anglicanism. I married a Methodist
and we both joined the Episcopal Church in time to have our oldest
daughter baptized.
I ended up at seminary - eventually Seabury Western. Graduated in
1957 and spent eight years in two cures in Minnesota. Then came
here
to St. Louis where for 16 1/2 years I was first Associate and then
Rector of St. Peter's, Ladue. These were the 60s & 70s and I lived
through civil rights, Viet Nam, New PB, and women's ordination. In
1981 I finally admitted I was totally out of gas and I resigned the
parish. God was good to me and I ended up here at Washington
University in a second career developing a program of user support
for desktop computing.
My wife and I now go to Emmanuel Webster Groves where I am listed as
an Assisting Priest - which gets me a vote in Convention. I am a
very happy man in my own career and home and church. Three grown,
healthy, successful children, three gorgeous grandchildren (only
regret - I want a granddaughter!) My oldest child Gretchen Pickeral,
mother of sons 15 & 11, will be ordained priest April 27, 1994 in
Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. (Halleluia!)
I have decided to retire August 1. So if I can get my e-mail sorted
out I will start trying to be as much of a nuisance on this list as
Patrick is, or maybe I'll work on writing long pedantic low-church
notes to balance /john. :-)
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Selena Billington (selena at csn.org)
USA: Colorado (Golden)
Biography last updated Jan 10
My name's Selena Billington. I grew up un-churched, my parents both
having fled from the organized religions of their respective youths.
I started checking out churches about 10 years ago, some months
after
I got divorced, thinking at the time that I was looking for both a
sense of community and a safe singles club. The third Sunday of
this
venture I happened to go to an Episcopal church where the sermon was
so good I decided to come back another week. Ditto the second week
-- and the third, etc. For quite a while I was then stuck with
going
to two churches every Sunday -- the early service at St. Ambrose
(Boulder, CO) for the sake of the learning and a later service at
some other church as part of my supposed search. After a while I
figured out that I'd been searching indeed, but *NOT* for just an
improvement in my social life, and so settled down to just St.
Ambrose.
It took me a long time to become trustful of the liturgy. It took
me
a VERY long time to get baptized, even after I knew that would be
truly right, and a good and joyful thing for me to do, because I
didn't completely understand the words in the baptismal vow; my
first
big leap of faith was to take that vow WITHOUT really understanding
all of it. It also took a long time for me to come to terms with my
need to go to seminary some day, but I worked it out with God a few
years ago: now I'm putting money aside in savings bonds every pay
period so I can pay for the tuition when I retire from my current
work, and in return I don't have to feel uncomfortable about not
quitting work, selling my house, and going right now.
I celebrated the fifth anniversary of my baptism last summer!
About a year or so ago I transferred to St. Andrew's, an inner-city
mission church in Denver. It's a wonderful place! Small
congregation, strong Anglo-Catholic tradition (incense every
Sunday),
beautiful building, eclectic and loving congregation, good sermons,
and a signi- ficant outreach program. I'm becoming involved as
acolyte as well as lector.
On the secular side, I'm a geophysicist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
I study rock bursts and other seismicity and microseismicity in
mines. Part-time, I'm an assistant technical editor for _Handwoven_
magazine, helping to make sure all the project instructions they
publish are perfect. I have a B.S. in chemistry and Ph.D. in
seismology, am 44 years old and comfortably single.
I really like ANGLICAN. I'm continually amazed at how many
discussions get started here about things that are directly
pertinent
to me at the moment. I also am very impressed at how articulate,
thoughtful and generally caring this group of people is. Even the
very heated arguments that take place here (and they ARE heated,
because our beliefs matter a lot to us) are (or at least become)
situations where the caring overshadows the disagreements.
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Don Binder (dbinder at sun.cis.smu.edu)
USA: Texas (Dallas)
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Cara Blackburn (cara_blackburn at baylor.edu)
USA: Texas (Waco)
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Martha Blacklock (airedale at harvarda.harvard.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I'm working on a D.Min at Episcopal Divinity School. Otherwise, I'm
a
priest canonically resident in New York, tax-paying resident of
northwestern New Jersey where I do emergency mental health work and
church supply, presently residing in Cambridge, MA.
I want to find a way to live in harmony with the people, the
creatures, the world into which I have been born. All of it -- seen
and unseen. I want to live both confidently and respectfully, with
neither fear nor arrogance. I'd like to take what I need to live,
without taking it from someone else, in my own generation or after.
My parents didn't teach me how to do this; they don't know how. My
society (mainstream U.S., in which I have lived as a middle-class,
white, well-schooled, physically able, usually closeted lesbian)
certainly didn't teach me; it is based on domination, not harmony.
I got the idea, from growing up in a small Episcopal church, that
religion's version of reality -- aka Truth -- made the primary claim
on a believer's life choices. That is, if there were a conflict
between what the society expected and what the gospel required the
gospel won. That teaching was accomplished primarily through my
regular participation in the weekly liturgy and Sunday School, as a
welcomed part of the church community.
I left the church in late adolescence (mine) because I noticed that
people not only didn't live what they preached, but didn't seem to
believe it, either. I spent some time with the Quakers, whose
approach to belief and life seemed more coherent and honest. I was,
and probably still am, bitter about the Episcopal Church's
tongue-in-cheek approach to the formation of its members' spiritual
and moral lives.
In my early thirties -- after fifteen years or so of going to school
and exploring various kinds of employment, e.g., advertising
copywriting, teaching, welfare casework, bar waitressing,
janitoring,
and working in a pottery -- I experienced a religious conversion and
vocational call to ordained ministry. This was in 1972. That is, I
came to believe that the creative essence of life can be experienced
by human beings as divine being, and that the nature of this being
is
love which might well express itself in the life, death,
resurrection
and spiritual presence of someone like Jesus. I understand the task
of the church to be -- in continual response to the spirit -- the
incarnation of divine harmony in whatever circumstances it finds
itself.
But, how? I have found much more explicit, practical guidance from
Buddhist and 12-step teaching than from the church, which says much
more about what to do than how to do it. It could be said that the
church's teaching takes place -- effectively, though obliquely -- in
the liturgical life of the community. Rather, the liturgical life of
the community *is* the church's teaching.
One major problem, revealed by feminist and liberation analysis, is
that people who participate in the authorized liturgical life of the
Episcopal Church do hear the gospel, but in a context of patriarchal
domination. Sort of like serving "chicken soup" made out of a couple
pieces of chicken in a bowl of anti-freeze; it might look like soup,
but it's not good for you. I would like to believe that it is still
possible for the ordinary liturgical life of Episcopalians to be
where people can experience the divine spirit among them as source
of
celebration and wellspring of power for everyday lives of justice
and
harmony. My D.Min. program at EDS is part of a renewed attempt to
find ways to make this happen.
My primary community of accountability is, I'm somewhat surprised to
realise, the Episcopal Church, first in the form of the living
people
who attempt to live and worship and study and talk together under
its
roof, but also in relation to the people who are part of its
history.
I once asked the bishop of the diocese in which I had been baptised
and confirmed if he would excommunicate me, because I wanted to get
clear of the church, not just sidle away. In something of the same
spirit I feel that as long as I am in orders this church is where I
am obligated to work out whatever salvation I can. This is where I
repeatedly recognise the possibility of a purposeful life, a place
for my contribution to a harmonious world life. This is the right
place for me, however uncomfortable. It's like an artist knowing her
medium to be, say, stone carving, even though enamel miniatures
would
be more convenient and seemingly suitable to her talents.
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David N. Black (dblack at andy.bgsu.edu)
USA: Ohio (Bowling Green)
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L. Gregory Bloomquist (gbloomq at acadvm1.uottawa.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Ottawa)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Deaconed: Pentecost, 1987; Priested: Palm Sunday, 1988
Current position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Saint
Paul Univ. 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario (responsibilities: NT,
Greek, Christian origins)
Pastoral Coordinator, Diocese of Ottawa - Anglican Studies
Programme,
Saint Paul University (responsibilities: field placements for
Anglican Postulants)
Honourary Assistant, St. Mark the Evangelist, 1606 Fisher Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario (responsibilties: periodic preaching, presiding,
visitation, replacement for incumbent during vacations)
Consultant, Networked Academic Research, 11 Southview Cr. Nepean,
Ontario (computer-network consulting for university staff and dio-
cese, including work for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities)
Member: American Academy of Religion, Association bible et
informatique, Association for Computers in the Humanities, Canadian
Society of Biblical Studies, Canadian Society of Patristic Studies,
Canadian Theological Society, Catholic Biblical Association of
America, Consortium for Computing in the Humanities, Society of
Biblical Literature, WESTAR Institute.
Personal: Married (14 years), 4 children (ages 12, 11, 8, 6)
Faith Journey: Brought up in a liberal (but loving) Methodist home
in
Iowa. Abandoned faith at Philips Exeter Academy. After being
involved in active Anarchist agitation in Spain, "found Christ"
among
remarkable evangelical baptists in Barcelona, Spain. After a total
of 5 years of study in Spain (including one year at the Jesuit
seminary in Barcelona) and 2 years of study in US to complete BA,
moved to Canada to do doctorate. After 2 years of study at the
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto (incl. MA),
finished MRel and ThD at Wycliffe College, Toronto, in biblical
studies. Spent 5 years teaching in Barcelona at the Jesuit seminary
and working among evangelical churches and Anglican chaplaincy in
Barcelona. Returned to Canada in 1986 for year's preparation for
Anglican ordination. 1987: ordained as an Anglican deacon-teacher
and
began teaching at Saint Paul University.
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Roger Boltz (roger_boltz.parti at ecunet.org)
USA: Ohio (Cleveland)
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William R. Bond (randy007 at aol.com)
USA: Florida (Palm Beach)
No biography on file
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Tony Bowden (u8915431 at athmail1.causeway.qub.ac.uk)
Northern Ireland: Belfast
No biography on file
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Brad Q. Boyd (bradboyd at minerva.cis.yale.edu)
USA: Connecticut (New Haven)
No biography on file
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Robert Boyer (rboyer at mcs.drexel.edu)
USA: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
No biography on file
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William J. Bozeman (frbill1066 at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Edward J. Branley (elendil at mintir.new-orleans.la.us)
USA: Louisiana (New Orleans)
No biography on file
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Damon Brash (zz_damon_brash at macmail.bond.edu.au)
Australia: Queensland (Gold Coast)
No biography on file
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Penny Bridges (pbridges at mv.mv.com)
USA: New Hampshire (Manchester)
Biography last updated Apr 18
I'm an expatriat Brit, originally Church of Ireland, via C of E, now
Episcopalian, graduate of Clare College Cambridge, married a
Yorkshireman, in the USA since 1985, computer programmer, mother of
2, musician (viola, voice), classicist, aspirant to Holy Orders in
the Diocese of New Hampshire. I expect to enter Yale Divinity School
this fall. Anybody know of any other Clare graduettes or alumnae of
Wells Cathedral School aspiring to Holy Orders in the Anglican
Communion?
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Dana Briggs (dana at sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca)
USA: Washington (Bellingham)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am married (wife and two sons -- 14 and 12), live in Bellingham,
WA
(about 90 miles north of Seattle), and work in Surrey (Vancouver),
British Columbia.
Both Barbara (my wife) and I were received into the Episcopal Church
in 1988 after both having been born and raised in the Roman
tradition. Initially, we worshipped at St. Francis (Colorado
Springs)
and St. Michael's (Colorado Springs) before joining St. Paul's in
Bellingham this last September (we moved because of a job change for
me). In my particular case, I was away from any organized church
from
about 1967 (at the age of 13) to 1988 because of family
circumstances
as well as my own doubts about "organized religion".
At the urging of my wife and a friend (as well as an "inner"
urging),
I went to St. Francis, became "hooked" and was involved as the
Director of Religious Education, taught classes from preschool to
adult including catechumens, functioned as a lay reader, youth
organizer, sang tenor in the choir, etc.
Currently, because my job requires quite a bit of travel, I'm only a
"pew rat" at St. Paul's and am happy in that role for the forseeable
future. I suspect ya'll will see my postings in large spurts while
I'm not traveling, so apologies in advance, if I don't happen to
answer right away.
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Colette Brooks (crb at well.sf.ca.us)
USA: California (San Francisco)
No biography on file
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Elizabeth N. Brooks (brookse at citadel.edu)
USA: South Carolina (Charleston)
No biography on file
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Jim Broussard (broussard at acad.lvc.edu)
USA: Pennsylvania (Lebanon)
No biography on file
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Andrew Brown (abrown at independent.co.uk)
England: London
Biography last updated Dec 31
Religious Affairs Correspondent, "The Independent". London, England
work phone: +44 71-956-1682
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Herb Bryant (enbryant at merlin.nlu.edu)
USA: Louisiana (Monroe)
No biography on file
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Harry Buerkle (buerklh at mail.firn.edu)
USA: Florida (Tallahassee)
No biography on file
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Anthony Buquor (abuquor at merle.acns.nwu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Evanston)
No biography on file
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Charles Burton (cburton at spartan.ac.brocku.ca)
Canada: Ontario (St. Catharines)
No biography on file
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Michael I. Bushnell (mib at gnu.ai.mit.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
Member of St John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin St Boston (Government
Center)
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Peter S. Bushnell (petbush at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu)
USA: Florida (Gainesville)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Born: Sept. 6, 1948--Bogota, Colombia. Baptised: Sometime in 1949
in
DC (a cradle Episcopalian). Confirmed: 1962, St. Timothy's (DC--but
had classes at St. John's, Alamogordo, NM--but moved one week before
bishop's visitation)
Currently member of the Chapel of the Incarnation, Gainesville,
Florida where I help out as acolyte, lector, chalice bearer and
organist of last resort.
Am a member of the Folk Choir and adjunct Chancel Choir member at
Holy Trinity, Gainesville.
Have been to Cursillo and have served on 8 "Teams for Christ"
including two stints as head of music even tho I do not play guitar.
By day I am the Music and Latin America Monograph cataloger in the
George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida. After
hours I am an active musician in various music groups: including the
UF Renaissance Ensemble (recorders, krummhorns, flutes, shawms),
Florida Flute Club (pic, fl, alto fl. and bass flute), Gainesville
Civic Chorus and Civic Choristers (normally bass but have sung tenor
at times, including a switch from bass to tenor for the Bach B minor
mass with two days notice). I also play for various shows since I
also play clarinet.
I am still single (I doubt any wife would put up with my schedule).
Other interest: operas and mysteries.
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Craig Bustrin (craig at object.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
No biography on file
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Elizabeth Callison (ecalliso at graywolf.ftc.gov)
USA: Washington DC
No biography on file
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Ann Carlson (carlson at infi.net)
USA: Virginia (Norfolk)
Biography last updated Apr 19
NASA-Langley research scientist involved in the prediction of
atmospheric heating for reentry vehicles and hypersonic aircraft.
PhD in Aerospace - North Carolina State Univ, MS in Mechanical Eng.
-
The George Washington Univ, BS in Physics - Clarkson Univ.
Adjunct Professor - St. Leo College in Algebra and Physics (night
classes).
Semi-professional vocalist (Mezzo-soprano), member and occasional
soloist for the Virginia Choral Society, member and occasional
soloist for Hampton Baptist Church choir, free lance soloist for
churches, parties, weddings, funerals, etc.
Baptized Methodist, Southern Baptist from age 12-18,
non-denominational through college, Christian Church (Disciples)
until marriage, currently Episcopalian. Active in Integrity,
founder
of Integrity/Tidewater (Hampton Roads area of Virginia).
Hobbies are reading (both serious and mysteries), piano, opera,
computers.
Married with two cats. Snail mail: P O. Box 1086, Yorktown VA, 23692
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Kit Carlson (kitcar at aol.com)
USA: Washington DC/Maryland
Biography last updated Apr 20
I live in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. I'm a cradle Episcopalian,
confirmed and married at Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota (home
until
recently to the rather controversial Jack Iker, who officiated at my
wedding--my one claim to fame.) Florida. I attend Church of Our
Saviour-Hillandale, here in Silver Spring. I was raised
Anglo-Catholic, and that liturgical style is still "home" to me, but
my ecclesiastical politics fall much farther to the left than those
of Iker and the Synod folks.
I have pursued ordination in the past, opted out to have babies, and
I am considering getting back in the process, which here in the
Diocese of Washington is fairly brutal. They will be accepting only
5 postulants a year from now on.
I am married (14 years!) with two children, ages 7 and 5. When I
have a free day, I like to spend it at All Saints Convent,
Catonsville, MD, where one of the few Episcopal orders of nuns is
based.
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Mark A. Chaffee (mark.a.chaffee at um.cc.umich.edu)
USA: Michigan (Ann Arbor)
No biography on file
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Daniel Chaney (chaney at ms.uky.edu)
USA: Kentucky (Lexington)
No biography on file
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Linda Clingerman (clingerm at bcf.usc.edu)
USA: California (Los Angeles)
No biography on file
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Rick Cluett (rick_cluett.parti at ecunet.org)
USA: Pennsylvania (Bethlehem)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am Archdeacon of the Diocese of Bethlehem - 14 counties of NE PA.
I
found this meeting through the good offices of my brother in Christ
and neighbor across the Delaware, Louie Crew. I grew up sailing, so
I
will use the sailing metaphors of "catching the drift and testing
the
breezes" for the listening in I have been doing for the last couple
of weeks.
I have been ordained for twenty-something years and have served
parishes in the dioceses of Washington, Rochester, and Bethlehem
before becoming Archdeacon in 1984. I am much newer to electronic
communication and community. I do see the potential and the power
for
this new-to-me medium. I have been impressed with the level of
compassion - as well as passion - communicated in this meeting, and
I
look forward to finding a place in this virtual community of
Christians.
My spouse is a Lutheran who has an extraordinary pastoral ministry
working with persons with HIV/AIDS and their families. We share the
parenthood of three children of various racial mixtures. We have all
been "tested in the fire" of human experience and have come to
depend
upon God and God's miracles - especally the great miracle we
celebrate in this Christmastide.
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Fr Kevin Coffey (chapldr at hanau-emh1.army.mil)
Germany: Hanau
No biography on file
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Richard Cogill (rcogill at gac.edu)
USA: Minnesota (St. Peter)
No biography on file
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John Covert (covert at covert.enet.dec.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
Baptized as an infant at Old Christ Church in Shrewsbury, New
Jersey.
Raised, catechized, and confirmed at St. Patrick's in Falls Church,
Virginia, where I was for many years a member of the junior choir.
Spent 7/8/9th grade at St. Stephen's School in Alexandria, Virginia.
As an Army brat, for many years my "parishes" were military
Episcopal
communities; served or sang in the choir in U.S. Army Episcopal
chapels in Germany and Alabama.
During seven years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, was a parishioner and
server at The Church of Our Saviour, where I became an
ultra-conservative Anglo-Catholic, and, as a member of the formerly
all-Roman-Catholic fraternity Phi Kappa Theta, began to hope for
reconciliation between Rome, Canterbury, and Constantinople, in
accordance with the principles of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral
(see BCP pp 876-878).
Married Pam at The Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, Alabama.
Currently a parishioner at The Church of the Advent in Boston.
Member of the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life and of
the Episcopal Synod of America (but will not remain a member of ESA
should it become schismatic).
Extremely concerned about what seems to be a rapidly disintegrating
Church which is abandoning the Quadrilateral; will remain an
Episcopalian as long as it is possible to practice the Faith of the
Fathers within this Church, but the Roman option seems to be closer
and closer with every strange new practice sprung upon us by the
liberal establishment. However, the liberals seem to be trying to
bring the Roman Catholic Church into the same strange new religion
as
well.
Will proclaim forever the central doctrine of Christianity: "Jesus
is
Almighty God", the central fact that "Christ our Lord is Risen in
the
Flesh", and await His coming again in Glory.
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Jim Cox (jimc at bartman.sps.mot.com)
USA: Florida (Melbourne)
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Jay Crawford (jayc at alastair.clemson.edu)
USA: South Carolina (Greenville)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am a parishioner at Holy Trinity in Clemson, SC. I work at Clemson
University as a Computer Systems Manager. I have been a quiet
reader
of ANGLICAN for quite some time now, and thought I should introduce
myself.
I am 30 years old and married Scarlett in June of this year. My
first 18 years were spent in the Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) in St. Stephen, SC, where I was reared. I was third
generation Disciples of Christ, and my family was very devoted to
the
church. Being a small church, our Christian education programs were
not very strong. My cousin is (and was when I was growing up) the
organist and choir master at St. Stephen Episcopal Church, and I
would attend their Christmas Eve service, giving me an introduction
to the church I have come to love so much.
When I got to college and allowed myself to come out from under the
books to find a church, I realized that with no Disciples of Christ
Church near, I had to make a choice. I attended an Easter Sunday
service at Holy Trinity, and I knew I was home. I was confirmed in
1987, and have been active in the parish as a Eucharistic Minister,
Lay Reader, usher, and as member of the vestry.
I consider Holy Trinity to be broad. Some of us kneel to pray, some
of us stand; some bow towards the altar, others genuflect. I have
experienced what I consider high church at St. Mary's in Asheville,
NC and St. Paul's, K Street in Washington, DC, and I find that I
have
a great affection for it. Holy Trinity has three main Sunday
services, 8am (Rite I), 9am (Rite II), and 11:15am (Rite I or
Matins), along with Rite I at 6pm, and at 5:15pm on Wednesdays.
Even though I have been active in the Episcopal Church for over 6
years, I still consider myself a newcomer, not because I don't feel
welcome, but because I feel I have a great deal to learn about
Christianity and Anglicanism. In both areas, I have received a
great
deal of help from all of you by reading ANGLICAN.
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Louie Crew (lcrew at andromeda.rutgers.edu)
USA: New Jersey (Newark)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
CREW, LOUIE (LI MIN HUA), language professional, educator; b.
Anniston, Ala., Dec. 9, 1936; parents: Erman and Lula (Hagin) C.; m.
Ernest Clay, 1974. B.A., Baylor U., 1958; M.A., Auburn U., 1959;
Ph.D., U. Ala., 1971. Teaching fellow Auburn U., 1958-59; master
English and sacred studies Darlington Sch., 1959-62; St. Andrew's,
Del., 1962-65; master of English and English history Penge Secondary
Modern, London, Eng., 1965-66; instr. English U. Ala., 1966-70;
dir.
Independent Study Program of Experiment in Internat. Living, Eng.,
1970-71; prof. English Claflin Coll., Orangeburg, S.C., 1971-73,
88-89; assoc. prof. Fort Valley (Ga.) State Coll., 1973-79, U. Wis.,
Stevens Point, 1979-84; fgn expert in composition (on leave) Beijing
2nd Fgn. Lang. Inst., People's Republic China, 1983-84; dir.
writing program Chinese U. Hong Kong, 1984-87; assoc. prof. Rutgers
U., Newark, 1989--; free lance writer, 1987-88; cons. in field.
Author: Sunspots, 1976, The Gay Academic, 1978; Midnight Lessons,
1987; editor: A Book of Revelations: Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
Tell Their Own Stories, 1991; guest editor: College English, 1974.
Margins, 1975; mem. editorial bd. Jour. Homosexuality, 1977-83,
90--,
Notes on Teaching English, 1973-79, Progressive Composition Caucus,
1988-90, Empathy: Interdisciplinary Jour. of Profl. Working to End
Violence Against Sexual Minorities, 1990--; rev. editor Computers
and Composition, 1988-91. Alt. del. Wis. Democratic Conv., 1983;
founder INTEGRITY Nat. Orgn. Gay and Lesbian Episc., 1974; bd.
dirs.
Nat. Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 1976-78, Oasis, Diocese of Newark's
Ministry with Lesbian and Gays, 1990-91; mem. coun. Episcopal
Diocese of Newark, 1991--, Bd Essex County Episcopal Housing,
1992--,
Diocesan Task Force on Episcopal Identity, 1990-92; chair Task Force
on the History of the Diocese, 1991-93; [new: Deputy for Diocese of
Newark to General Convention, 1994-97]; mem. Wis. Gov.'s Council
Lesbian and Gay Issues, 1983-85. Recipient INTEGRITY award for
outstanding contbns. to Christian understanding of human sexuality,
1975, best article award Hong Kong Computer Soc., 1985; NEH fellow,
1974, 77, 81; Fulbright grantee, 1974; resident fellow Ragdale
Found., 1988, The Bishop's Outstanding Service Award in the Diocese
of Newark, 1992. Mem. Conf. Coll. Composition and Communication,
Nat. Coalition Black and Third World Gays, Internat. Assn. Black and
White Men Together, Gay Academic Union, Nat. Council of Tchrs.
English (dir. 1976-80, co-chmn, com. on lesbians and gay males in
the profession 1976-80, 89-90), Inst. Study of Human Resources (nat.
adv. trustee 1979--), Yale-China Assn., Assn. Shareware Profls., Phi
Kappa Phi, Alpha Psi Omega, Sigma Tau Delta, Lambda Iota Tau.
Democrat. Clubs: Campus Gay People's Union, SAR. Home: PO Box 30
Newark NJ 07101. (201) 485-4503 Office: Rutgers U. Academic Found
Newark NJ 07102 (201) 648-5434.
I would never have chosen to face the difficulties that life has
thrust upon me as a sexual outsider; but I choose to respect my
survival, so intimately does our character integrate with the
obstacles which shape us. Folks have us sexual reformers all wrong:
we are less about the business of sensuality than is the
neighborhood
gossip; ours is the task of all others fed on locusts and wild
honey:
to make way for the truth.
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Jay Croft (jlcroft at gallua.bitnet)
USA: Washington DC
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Mary Ann Croisant (croisant at delphi.com)
USA: Michigan (Midland)
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Loren Crow (lorendcrow at delphi.com)
USA: Texas (Wiley)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am a rather recent convert to Episcopalianism from Methodism
(although my upbringing was staunchly pentecostal). I'm now a
30-year-old husband, father, and Asst. Prof. of Religion. I am doing
my graduate work in Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University, chiefly
under the direction of Walter Harrelson.
My primary area of academic interest is in the book of Psalms. The
dissertation, which I'll defend in May 1994, is entitled "The Songs
of Ascents (Psalms 120-134): Their Place in Israelite History and
Religion." Ancillary interests include biblical theology, Israelite
history, comparative ancient Near Eastern literature, comparative
religions, and social history.
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Chris Cunningham (christotc at aol.com)
USA: Virginia (Lake Ridge)
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Irv Cutter (cutteri at texaco.com)
USA: Texas (Houston)
Biography last updated Apr 20
Born in Austin TX in 1966, I grew up in Poughkeepsie NY and Corpus
Christi TX. I moved to Houston to go to college (Rice University, BA
History '87), and I'm still in Houston, working as a graphic artist
for Texaco's research lab here.
I'm a cradle Episcopalian. In high school I was active in EYC and
the
Happening movement; I even squeezed in a Faith Alive weekend. My
church activities were pretty dormant in my college years, although
I
was blessed to befriend a lot of Christians of different persuasions
who challenged me to grow spiritually.
After college I felt the need to get involved in a parish; I
eventually joined St. Mark's, Houston, and jumped right in. Right
now
I'm a lector and EFM mentor, and I'm in my second year as junior
warden. All of the activity is, I guess, a scattershot attempt to
figure out how I am supposed to best serve God and the church. I'm
not sure when I'll get an answer to the question. Hey, I'm young
still, and I suppose I'm in no rush.
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Elizabeth Dagata (edagata at ers.bitnet)
USA: Washington DC
Biography last updated Jan 11
I have been a lurker on this list for some time so I've decided to
come out of hiding. I am a cradle Episcopalian, born and raised in
Chatham, New York about 30 miles from Albany. I attended an Epis.
girls school (St. Agnes) in Albany and attended All Saints
Catherdral. Among the more interesting things I have done are: (1)
live in a developing country for several years, (2) survive a failed
marriage, (3) raise 3 terrific sons pretty much on my own (I am
going
to be grandmother to a baby girl in April!) and (4) get a job with
the Dept. of Agriculture doing research on the well-being of rural
residents in the U.S. After having an awful experience with a
charasmatic church in Fairfax, Va. I am looking for another Epis.
church. These are the essentials.
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Carlos A. Delgado (carlos at pliny.ehs.ufl.edu)
USA: Florida (Gainesville)
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Doug Dicharry (ddic at u.washington.edu)
USA: Washington (Seattle)
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David Diephouse (ddiephou at ursa.calvin.edu)
USA: Michigan (Grand Rapids)
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Jeff Dilcher (dilcher at netcom.com)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
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Clay Edward Dixon (ced4g at poe.acc.virginia.edu)
USA: Virginia (Charlottesville)
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William K. Dolen (bdolen.deptped at mail.mcg.edu)
USA: Georgia (Augusta)
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Rob Domaschuk (rdom at unixg.ubc.ca)
Canada: British Columbia (Vancouver)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I am just finishing my second year of seminary at the Vancouver
School of Theology. I am indeed an Anglican (born that way, too!!),
and am very committed to ecumenism in the church. Academically my
interests lie in three areas: Metaphysics (My undergrad major)
liturgical music, and parallels between mythology and the church. I
am always happy to receive mail from anyone! Shalom.
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Bruce Donigan (bdonigan at aol.com)
Location unknown
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David Donnell (ddonnell at teleport.com)
USA: Oregon (Portland)
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Michael Dotson (mdotson at shihou01.houston.mm1.shl.com)
USA: California (San Francisco)
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Warren Doud (doud at galileo.tracor.com)
USA: Texas (Austin)
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Harmon Dow (0005859319 at mcimail.com)
Location unknown
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Susan Drain (sdrain at linden.msvu.ca)
Canada: Nova Scotia (Halifax)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I am associate professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and a member of St. John's
Church, Halifax.
Once upon a time I wrote a dissertation, which became a book, on
Anglican hymn editing and publishing in the 19th century, focusing
on
_Hymns Ancient and Modern_ in its earliest editions. Lurking on
ANGLICAN is the nearest I have come since to that experience of
immersing myself (through the archival material) in 19thC
theological
and liturgical discussions among laity and clergy. The discussions
are just as heated by times. I am enjoying lurking ... may
contribute
... may get overwhelmed ... we'll see.
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Christine C. Draper (draper at faith.gordonc.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Alan Dungey (amdungey at tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
Australia: Western Australia (Perth)
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Laurie Duren (duren at uansv3.vanderbilt.edu)
USA: Tennesee (Nashville)
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Stanley Easton (fse1 at jsumus.bitnet)
USA: Alabama (Jacksonville)
Biography last updated Jan 12
I was born at Spokane, Washington, in 1936. I became a junior high
school teacher and, later, a teacher educator. I was a professor of
education at the University of Mississippi and Montana State
University before coming to my present position as a department head
in the College of Education at Jacksonville State University.
My paternal grandfather was a Unitarian and a socialist. My
maternal
grandfather was a Christian Scientist and a reformed heavy drinker
(so I was told). My father was killed in an accident when I was 19
months of age. I attended Christian Science Sunday school through
high school. I was exposed to "mainstream" protestantism during
summers at "Y" camp.
I attended a Presbyterian college for my freshman year. Later, at a
state university I was affliated with the college YMCA. I visited
Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches in search
of a "home." During my first year as a teacher I was baptized and
confirmed in the Episcopal church.
I absented myself from the Episcopal church for about 15 years after
several months of dealing with my arrested social development
through
psychotherapy . I also moved South--first for graduate studies, then
for employment. I associated myself with Unitarian/Universalist
churches in Baton Rouge and Memphis and with their "mail order"
Church of the Larger Fellowship.
I married for the first time in 1973 at the age of 37. It was a
relationship doomed to failure from the very beginning, but I
refused
to admit it and tried hard to make it work until we divorced six
years later. I found myself in a highly anxious and depressed
state.
With the help of a psychologist who was Christian and Jungian in his
orientation, I was healed.
I married again in 1981. This time to a very strong and positive
woman. Small world--her mother was a layreader and treasurer of All
Saints Episcopal Church in Kangshan, Taiwan. Shortly after our
marriage I accepted a new position at Montana State University. We
moved to Bozeman and settled on the Episcopal parish there as our
church home. For me, it felt like a real homecoming although the
prayer book had changed and I soon saw my first woman priest. In
Bozeman I completed four years of Education for Ministry. I served
on the vestry. I became a lay eucharistic minister and hospital
visitor. I was approached about entering formation for the
diaconate
which was just about to begin in the Diocese of Montana. I decided
to try it. By the end of what proved to be a two and one-half year
period of preparation and training I believed I was meant to be a
deacon.
In the winter of 1990 I accepted a new position as department head
and professor of education at Jacksonville State University. I took
up my new responsibilites in April of that year. I commuted back to
Montana to complete deacon formation and was ordained a deacon on
October 6, 1990. From that day to this I have served as deacon at
St. Luke's church here in Jacksonville. The people of St. Luke's
and
I are continuing to learn what a deacon is and, so far, are pleased
with what we have discovered.
My wife and I have one son, Andrew, who just turned eight years old.
Our interests include politics, travel, drama, dancing, and keeping
reasonably fit.
I am a sporadic reader of the Anglican list and expect to contribute
little. It is useful for me to see, however, the subjects that
generate discussion.
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Gail Edwards (edwards at slais.ubc.ca)
Canada: British Columbia (Vancouver)
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Dawn Elizabeth (dwnlzbth at merle.acns.nwu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Evanston)
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Richard Elliott (rgelli00 at ukcc.uky.edu)
USA: Kentucky (Lexington)
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Robert Ellison (rhe at vaxb.acs.unt.edu)
USA: Texas (Denton)
Biography last updated Apr 18
Robert Ellison is a PhD candidate in English at the University of
North Texas. He holds a Teaching Fellowship at North Texas and is
an
adjunct instructor in the English Department at Dallas Baptist
University.
His dissertation is a study of Victorian preaching--specifically the
sermons of John Henry Newman, George MacDonald, and Charles Haddon
Spurgeon--from the perspective of orality/literacy theory.
Robert expects to complete the PhD in the spring of 1995 and will be
job-hunting in earnest beginning this summer and fall. He is
primarily interested in teaching in the English department (perhaps
with some work in Religion) of a church-affiliated school. He would
appreciate hearing from anyone with suggestions of schools to
contact
or other tips for the job hunt.
Robert may be reached at the following addresses:
Home: 1804 Wurzburg Drive, Ft. Worth, TX 76134/817-551-5881;
Internet: rhe at vaxb.acs.unt.edu
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Scott Estes (sestes at ncc.uky.edu)
USA: Kentucky (Lexington)
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David Evans (evans at fredonia.bitnet)
USA: New York (Buffalo)
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Eric James Ewanco (eje at irenaeus.lkg.dec.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Lawrence S. Falkowski (lfalkowski at aol.com)
USA: Washington DC/Virginia
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am currently a senior at Virginia Theological Semiary and expect
to
receive my M.Div. in May 1994. I am 45 years old, married with two
children ages 8 and 6.
Prior to seminary I was an associate professor of Political Science
at Louisiana State University where I taught International Politics
and Law. I also served LSU as the director of research services for
five years. I have two books and a number of articles published.
I have served as a consultant to the Louisiana legislature and have
been a forensic investigator for the attorney general in the area of
computer fruad and white collar crime.
I was raised in the Roman Catholic and have been an Episcopalian for
eight years. I have a B.S. for St. Peter's College, M.A. Fairleigh
Dickenson Unviversity and PhD from Rutgers University (1976).
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Bill Farnham (billfarn at aol.com)
USA: Tennessee (Harriman)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am in Harriman, Tennessee. That's in the eastern part of the
state,
40 miles SW of Knoxville along I-40 towards Nashville.
I am a member of St. Andrew's Church, in Harriman. We are in the
Diocese of East Tennessee, the see city of which is Knoxville. Our
Bishop is the Rt. Rev. Robert G. Tharp. I am privileged to serve on
our diocesan Ecumenical Commission and as a representative of our
diocese in the General Assembly of the Tennessee Association of
Churches.
I am interested in following a vocation to the dicaonate. As a
hard-core ecumenist I am interested in all phases of ecumenism, with
a special burden for Anglican/Orthodox relations.
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Franci Farnsworth (farnswor at midd.cc.middlebury.edu)
USA: Vermont (Middlebury)
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John Felbinger (jef1 at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
USA: New York (New York City)
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MA Fields (mafields at aol.com)
USA: Alabama (Birmingham)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I'm a church musician who supports her music habit by working as a
librarian at Birmingham-Southern College (Internet address:
mfields%gateway at bsc.edu). I also have a _very_ small-press music
publishing business, Alderpoint Press. My husband is the rector of
St. Thomas Church here in Birmingham, the newest parish (for the
next
week or so) in the diocese. I joined this list out of curiosity and
have stayed because of increasing interest in and affection for the
participants.
(As an aside, my given name--good southern fashion--is Mary Alice.
MA is what people eventually wind up calling me, and that seemed
appropriate in the context of such an oddly personal medium.) My
personal theological/liturgical grounding is
high-church-which-goes-forth-to-love-and-serve-the-Lord. Left to my
own devices, I mostly play Bach. And I really like the way this
list
works.
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Janet Fischer (gr340375 at sjsuvm1.bitnet)
USA: California (San Jose)
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Judy Fisher (jcfisher at cutcv2.bitnet)
USA: New York (New York city)
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Bill Fite (alaric at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu)
USA: Florida (Orlando)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I'm a 47 year old GWM, member of the graduate faculty of the
University of Florida, teaching at our tiny Orlando satellite
campus.
My teaching responsibilities are mainly statistics, research
methods,
and health care administration. My research centers on moral
development. Yes, I realize that those don't seem to go together.
Praise God for diversity!
I was raised in a strict anglocatholic home where religion was not
much discussed or reflected on but simply worn like clothing. It
was
not until I went away to Sewanee as an undergrad that I really
discovered the protestant side of the Episcopal church. What a
shock. That, combined with revisions of the BCP, drove me to convert
to the Roman rite, where I remained for half a dozen years.
In that time, I discovered real spiritual direction from a variety
of
sources. I also took a degree in comparative religion and read
nearly everything I could get my hands on about mysticism.
In a transformation so slow and gradual that it seems now a seamless
continuum, I moved from archconservative anglocatholic to liberal
anglo- catholic to catholic-practicing christocentric universalist.
At the same time, my spiritual perspective moved from
Augustinian/Benedictine to Franciscan. Similarly, I moved from a
highly intellectualized and dogmatized theology to one of extreme
simplicity. I love the forms, signs and symbols of the church but I
am deeply suspicious of its organization and its preoccupation with
authority.
At this point, I am active in spiritual direction and in the work of
the Third Order, Society of St. Francis, in which I have made my
life
profession. My superiors in the Order do not ask too many questions
about my orthodoxy, so I do not often get into dilemmas like Cindy's
priest and the trinity. In my life and in my work, I make no claims
to having a corner on the truth. I'm deeply suspicious of persons
who
have all the answers, or can tie neat bows around complex moral
issues. But, as I often have nothing concrete to offer as an
alternative (a state which does not bother me at all but bothers
others mightily from time to time), I often sound more like a
tearer-
down than a builder-up. And, in fact, a great deal of my spiritual
growth has come from tearing down and throwing out religious
edifices
in which I have lived in comfort and wandering around out in the
rubble-strewn street. Happily, I've run into Jesus a couple of times
in the process.
Peace to you all. I think of you as a wonderful extended family and
pray that you will forgive my too-frequent lapses into sarcasm.
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John Fontaine (ek597c at gwuvm.bitnet)
USA: Washington DC
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Aaron Friar (aaron.friar at ac.hillsdale.edu)
USA: Michigan (Hillsdale)
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Timothy Gaden (tjg at hermes.apana.org.au)
Australia: Victoria (Melbourne)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I'm a 30 y.o. Anglican priest from Melbourne, Australia, now looking
four years of ordained ministry in the face. I suppose that I'm a
'liberal Catholic', but I'm not entirely convinced the word
'liberal'
means anything anymore. Perhaps, radical catholic would be better,
if it did seem such an oxymoron! Having completed by two curacies,
I'm now working, studying and teaching. I work for the General
Board
of Religious Education in Melbourne, which is like what's left of
the
Educational department at 815 in New York, where I'm national
administrator for EFM Australia, and national developement officer
for the Catechumenate. I tutor systematics and patristics at the
United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, an ecumenical theological
education where R.C., Reformed and Anglican Churches have pooled
their resources to train candidates for ministry. I'm also doing a
doctorate (ha, ha!) in the structuring and role of experience in
Second Century theology (Apostolic Fathers, Apologists) at Monash
University.
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Steve Gambino (sgambino at ralvm29.vnet.ibm.com)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Biography last updated Apr 20
Greetings all! I was born in 1956 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, baptized
RC, attended RC elementary school, and served as an altar boy until
eighth grade. During high school, I drifted away from institutional
Christianity by venturing into Eastern religious practices, namely,
TM and Yoga. At 20, I happened upon "The Chronicles of Narnia" and
thus began a journey back to the God of my youth as was taught to me
in the Christian faith. For 10 years I journeyed in different
Protestant churches. I was ordained as an elder in 1985 and served
in that capacity in a reformed Southern Baptist church.
After barely surviving (spiritually, that is) a church split there,
I
eventually sought haven in an Anglican church (St Andrews, Lake
Worth
FL), and was received in the same in 1988. Currently I am living in
Raleigh, North Carolina with my dear wife of 18 years(!) and two
blessings Benjamin (11) and Andrea (7). I am a programmer by trade
(although my BA is in Languages and Linguistics from Florida
Atlantic
University) and I am a first year EFM student. I attend The Church
of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh. I believe I started my subscription
to ANGLICAN sometime in the Fall of 1993. My favorite NT Scripture
of
late has been the tail end of John 21:22 "...what is that to thee?
follow thou me."
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Dana Gaspar (gaspar at iris.uncg.edu)
USA: North Carolina (Greensboro)
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Charles Gaumond (cgaumond at cap.gwu.edu)
USA: Washington DC
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The Revd D.G. Geis (greggeiis at delphi.com)
Location unknown
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Donald F.M. Gerardi (dgerardi at bklyn.bitnet)
USA: New York (New York City)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I teach History and Religious Studies at Brooklyn College, City
University of New York and hold degrees from Wesleyan, Harvard, and
Columbia. I research and write on Anglo-American religious culture
in
the 18th and 19th centuries. I teach courses in American Religious
History, an Introduction to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Jesus
and the Christian Tradition, as well as courses in modern history
and
the American Revolution. I serve as historian for my parish, St.
Luke
in the Fields in New York City, and am a member of the Guild of
Scholars of the Episcopal Church.
So there it is - in brief. It sounds pretty stodgy. What else would
be of interest? I need constant fixes of mystery novels, BBC
comedies, and long distance swimming.
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Peter Glazier (p.glazier at exeter.ac.uk)
England: Exeter
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John Goodwin (jgoodwin at adcalc.fnal.gov)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
Biography last updated Apr 18
GOODWIN, JOHN EDWARD, III, scientist, consultant, and E-text
author; b. Tucson, Ariz., Mar. 8 1962; parents: John and Jean
(Maack) G.; m. Sheila S. Stanley, 1986; 1 dau., Hester Denali
Goodwin-Stanley, 1989; 1 son, Nicholas Justin Goodwin-Stanley,
1994. A.B., Harvard Coll., 1983; M.S., Indiana U., 1986; Ph.D.,
Indiana U., 1990. assoc. instr., Indiana U., 1983-84; research
asst., Indiana U. Cyclotron Facility, 1985-90; postdoctoral
fellow, U. Michigan, 1990; research assoc., Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, 1990-94.
Church affiliations: confirmed, 1975 at St. Timothy's, Wauwatosa,
Wis.; Trinity, Wauwatosa, Wis., 1976-1979; St. John Evangelist,
Boston, 1979-1983; Trinity, Bloomington, Ind., 1983-1990; St.
Charles Episcopal, St. Charles, Ill., 1990--.
Member: Am. Physical Soc., 1983--; Am. Soc. Qual. Control., 1994--.
Author: _EMAIL 101_
_Elements of E-text Style_
Both at //world.std.com:/obi/Networking/John.Goodwin/...
Editor: _The Book of Common Prayer_ (American 1979), Free E-Text
Version at //auvm.american.edu.
Current Projects: A free ASCII text of the Greek NT; a
booklength FAQ for Christianity.
Interests: production of free, educational E-text ("freelore"),
esp. for religious instruction; creation of an electronic list
that is more like a weekly magazine for Christians; Classical,
Christian, and Analytic Philosophy; Church History; NT Greek and
Latin; most left-brain subjects.
Home: 911 Dean St., St. Charles, IL 60174. +1 708 584 9628.
E-mail: jegoodwin at delphi.com.
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Deirdre J. Good (good at acfcluster.nyu.edu)
USA: New York (New York City)
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Mark E Graham (megraham at aol.com)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
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Susan Graham (sgraham at epas.utoronto.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Toronto)
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John Graves (jcgraves at ashley.win.net)
USA: Kentucky (Louisville)
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Carol Greene (ashlbrcg at ukcc.uky.edu)
USA: Kentucky (Lexington)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I was born and raised here in Ashland, KY, and have spent most of my
adult life here, despite several attempts to leave. I am Director
of
Library Services at Ashland Community College, a two year
institution
that is part of the University of Kentucky. We have about 3300
students. I previously worked as Youth services librarian at Cabell
County Public Library (WVA), Reference Librarian at Marshall
Univeristy, and as librarian English teacher, jack of all trades at
a
Roman Catholic High School. I have an MS in Library Science, MA in
English, and am currently a PhD student at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania in Literature and Criticism.
I was raised in the Church of God, discovered the Episcopal church
when in graduate school. When I came back to Ashland I continued to
wroship with my parents, and was even church organist (I began life
as a music major). I finally couldn't handle the fundamentalist
mind
set any longer! At about the same time, the choir director was
fired
because someone's daughter didn't get to sing the solo in the
Christmas program. I decided it was time to move on! I did some
work
as substitute organist for about a year, church shopping as I went,
I
learned a lot, but in the end realized that my place was indeed in
the Episcopal church. I was confirmed at Calvary Church Ashland in
1979, a decision I have never regreted. Most of my family had, and
still have, serious doubts about my salvation! I was determined not
to get involved, having seen enough of church business in my
organist
days! I did, however, agree to sing in the choir. I went to
Cursillo
in 1986 -- wonderful! Now I am Diocesian Secretary of Daughters of
the King, member of Calvary's Vestry and Search Committee, and
organist for our 8:00 Sunday Eucharist. So much for not being
involved. After some really awful experencies growing up in a very
conservative church, I am thankful to have found a place where I can
worship, where despite those political differences we discussed,
there is a core of Christian beliefs I agree with, and where the
service is always beautiful (even if a little ragged around the
edges!)
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Razmic Gregorian (razmic at corona.chem.yale.edu)
USA: Connecticut (New Haven)
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Rochelle Grey (rochellg at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us)
USA: Oregon (Portland)
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Ron Grimes (rgrimes at cap.gwu.edu)
USA: Washington DC
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Robert M. Gross (rmgross at dow.com)
USA: Michigan (Midland)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am not a cradle Episcopalian, rather I come from a tradition
fairly
far removed, that of the Church of Christ (Campbellite, no
instrumental music, etc.). I'm also an Air Force brat. I got my
first
degree (BS-Math, 1967) from the University of Houston and promptly
exercised my right of a free US citizen to avoid the draft by
enlisting in the Army. After three years of more fun than I could
ever imagine (including 1 1/2 years in Korea, I left to pursue a
lucrative career as a computer geek with Sperry Univac. I'm a
consulting type (meaning I get rented out to other organizations) so
I've had the opportunity to learn the intracicies of several
different kinds of businesses. I'm currently working as a consultant
at a major chemical company.
Somewhere along there, I received a call to the ministry (in the
CofC
this is a fairly literal thing, involving telephones - no
psycho-spiritual stuff.) The CofC doesn't "ordain" ministers in the
sense that Anglicans do, but I was sufficiently so to be later
offered an Army Chaplain's commission (which I didn't take). The
CofC
also has no formal requirements for ministerial education, but I
felt
a major lack thereof and proceeded to matriculate as an M. Div.
student at Princeton Seminary. Three years of Presbyterian
education
as a CofC minister led me to being confirmed in the Episcopal Church
by the Rt. Reverend G. P. Mellick Belshaw, III just before my
graduation.
This boded ill for my continued employment as a CofC minister, so I
returned to my earlier calling of computer wizard, where I have been
stuck ever since. It's not my preferred work, but I can't find
anything else that pays so well with so little work that I can get
into (I'm too irreverent to be a successful politician.)
I am now married to a lady from Arkansas, Dixie Andrus, who was a
pagan when we met (I am neatly enough also her godfather). We have
four children from various sources, three of whom fit in the school
system's category of "special needs". The other one is an
excessively
overachieving child and will probably be the first Anglican chosen
Pope. Dixie and I spend our leisure hours defending them from the
agendae of the state and school system's social helping
organizations.
We are active members of a small mid-Michigan parish (Holy Family,
Midland). I'd say "very small" but as northern Michigan parishes go,
we're mid-sized. I am the Sr. Warden (I actually lost the election,
but the winner did a Sherman and I was stuck.) HF is part of an
experimental cluster of three rural parishes - meaning we share
ministry. Among the three parishes, we can afford one and a fraction
priests and that's with a deficit budget. You may have read that the
Diocese of Michigan is dividing - our part (tentatively and we hope
temporarily titled the Diocese of Northern Lower Michigan) will be
one of the poorer diocese's in the church and our organization for
ministry will have to be quite different from the more usual
Episcopalian style. It promises to be an exciting process.
Dixie is attracting other parents of special ed. children to church
-
we recently had our Christmas pageant with over half the children
being autistic and/or ADD. It gives new meaning to the term
"handicapped accessible." Possibly a sign of the Holy Spirit at
work.
Or at play, I'm not sure which. She has also begun a chapter here of
the Daughters of the King and we've followed it with a chapter of
the
Brotherhood of St. Andrew both of which are the beginnings of what I
see as a major spiritual growth for the parish.
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Ken Guthrie (fgkg at jsumus.bitnet)
USA: Alabama (Jacksonville)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Reared the son of a minister, I was trained for and ordained to the
ministry in a Protestant denomination but my own personal (perhaps
spiritual) quest left me dissatisfied there. Subsequently, I made
both career and church changes: I teach writing, American
literature, and a Bible as literature course for a small university
in northeast Alabama; I have been in the Episcopal Church for two
decades.
Department of English, Jacksonville State University.
700 N. Pelham SC311; Jacksonville, AL 36203.
(205) 782-5479, (205) 237-0830.
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Sarah K. Hague (sarah.k.hague at dartmouth.edu)
USA: New Hampshire (Hanover)
Biography last updated Jan 10
My name is Sally Hague. Actually, the Reverend Sarah K. Hague. I
am
the assistant rector of Saint Thomas Church Hanover, NH and chaplain
at Dartmouth College. I am a 1991 graduate of GTS, the daughter of
a
priest, the mother of four and grandmother of three.
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Tobias S. Haller (tsh at maestro.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
Biography last updated Jan 10
Tobias Stanislas Haller, BSG
President, The Catholic Fellowship of the Episcopal Church
Internet: tsh at maestro.com CompuServe: 76675,3032
2462 Webb Avenue + Bronx NY 10468-4802
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Earl Hall (trust at hebron.connected.com)
USA: Washington (Yakima)
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Jeff Hall (jhall at acadvm1.uottawa.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Ottawa)
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Marguerite Halversen (halverse at student.msu.edu)
USA: Michigan (Lansing)
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David Hamid (david_hamid.parti at ecunet.org)
Canada: Ontario (Toronto)
Biography last updated Mar 14
Canon David Hamid. Mission Coordinator, Latin America/Caribbean.
Anglican Church of Canada, 600 Jarvis St., Toronto, Ont., Canada,
M4Y2J6
Tel: +416 924 9192 Fax: +416 924 3483;
Internet: david_hamid at ecunet.org
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Darrell P. Hammer (hammer at ucs.indiana.edu)
USA: Indiana (Bloomington)
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Kay Hammond (hammo003 at dukemc.bitnet)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
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James Handsfield (jhh0 at phpdls1.em.cdc.gov)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I'm a charter member of the Baby Boomers, being born October 5,
1946,
approximately 9 months after my father returned from WWII. I am a
cradle episcopalian who grew up in the diocese of Long Island and
was
a member of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, NY. I
was baptized by the Rt. Rev. James DeWolfe when I was two months old
(Dec. 10, 1946) and later, at age 12 was confirmed by the same
bishop. From the time I was confirmed I was an acolyte at the
Cathedral and was inducted into the Order of St. Vincent at age 13.
In 1961 my family moved to England, where church membership and
attendance became almost non-existant. When I did attend, it was
usually at the church in Kingston-upon-Thames (I don't remember the
name, but at the time it housed the coronation stone of Saxon kings,
hence the name of the town), or on occasion at St. Albans,
Teddington. After one year of school at the US Air Force High
School
in Bushy Park (the former SHAEF Headquarters), the Queen wanted her
land back and the school was torn down. For the next two years I
was
in school at the Leysin American School, Leysin, Switzerland, and
then one year at the American College of Switzerland, also in
Leysin.
I think I went to church once during that time.
1965 saw us returning stateside to San Diego, California, and still
not attending church. I received a friendly notice from the
Selective Service System in the summer of 1970 that I was being
reclassified 1A, and that with a draft lottery number of 24 I could
expect another friendly notice subsequently. I wandered down to the
local recruiter and asked what were my chances of getting a
reasonably good job in the Army if I let myself be drafted (the Viet
Nam War was in full swing). The recruiter responded "Great if you
like the Infantry!" That led to my enlisting as a medical equipment
repairman and I reported in October, 1970. After my training, I was
sent to Okinawa.
After about a month, I was feeling down, and was reading Time
Magazine -- the one in June, 1971 that featured the Jesus Movement.
I decided that I would try going to church again. Since I was still
quite green (no pun intended), I considered that in the Army there
were Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Since I was neither Catholic
or Jewish, I must be Protestant, so I went to a Protestant service.
I came out feeling that I hadn't been to church, and that I can read
two verses of scripture as well as anyone! During the week,g I
discovered that there was an Episcopal Chaplain who celebrated
Eucharist at 8:00 AM Sunday morning in another part of the chapel
facility. I went and was blown away by the Gospel -- the one about
all the angels rejoicing for one person returning to God! I was
hooked. Not that attendance has been anywhere near perfect, but I
never again entirely forsook my relationship with God or the Church.
After the Army, and many more years of education, I found myself as
a
PhD candidate in biology and with an MPH in epidemiology and
statistics. I became involved to some extent in charismatic
renewal.
I also became active in Happening, experiencing the event in Tucson
and being on the team to introduce Happening to San Diego. At that
first San Diego Happening, there was an adult Happener who is now my
wife (dangerous things, these Happenings!). Marcy and I have been
married almost 9 years and we have a son, Matthew, who was born in
August, 1991, thanks to the skill of the infertility clinic nurses
and doctors at Kaiser in San Diego.
During this time, Marcy and I became very involved in Cursillo,
having attended in 1983 (on separate weekends). We have served on
many Cursillo teams, and I had the privilege of being Rector of
Cursillo # 59 in San Diego. Marcy served as treasurer of the San
Diego Cursillo for three years, and I served half of a term on the
Secretariat. I also resumed my license as a lay reader and lay
eucharistic minister at Trinity Church, Escondido.
At the end of April, 1992, the funds for my job as a biostatistician
with the County of San Diego Department of Health Services ran out,
and before they could secure new funds, I was offered my present
position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in
Atlanta. After a week of agonizing, Marcy and I made the most
difficult decision of our marriage and decided to accept the
position, leaving family (my father and marcy's parents, brother,
and
sister), friends, and community behind. We arrived in Atlanta on
July 10, 1992.
After several months of searching, we moved our canonical residence
to St. Patrick's, Atlanta -- a very charismatic parish. Within six
months, we found ourselves becoming very dissatisfied over the
extreme conservatism of much of the membership (political and
theological) and what I considered laxity with the liturgy. We
started searching again, and last month (December) moved our
membership to St. Bede's in Atlanta.
Marcy and I are in our second year of EFM, and last November I
started a course in spiritual direction being given by John
Westerhoff III at St. Bartholomew's. I've also been blessed with
finding a new spiritual director, and I'm once again taking up
chalice as a lay eucharistic minister at St. Bede's. I'm in the
throes of trying to discern whether I have a vocation to the
diaconate, or whether I can carry out my ministries as a lay person,
so any and all prayers will be most appreciated.
We still don't really know why God called us to Atlanta, but we hope
to have some answers before long.
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Trez Hane (trez1 at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Kathy Hanneman (cantedeo at aol.com)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
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Duane Harbin (dharbin at yalevm.bitnet)
USA: Connecticut (New Haven)
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Kendall S. Harmon (74041.2740 at compuserve.com)
USA: South Carolina (Charleston)
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Andrew Hart (bhuq at musicb.mcgill.ca)
Canada: Quebec (Montreal)
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Roy Haskell (rjhaskel at pwinet.upj.com)
USA: Michigan (Kalamazoo)
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Giles Hawkins (gmh7704.nlc1 at pcmail.dcccd.edu)
USA: Texas (Dallas)
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E. Perren Hayes (kypie at aol.com)
USA: Washington DC/Virginia
Biography last updated Apr 20
Born and raised in Albany NY member of All Saints Cathedral Parish;
mentored by Fr. Loren Gavitt, complier of St. Augustine's Prayer
Book
and Fr. George De Mille, historian of the Episcopal Church back
then.
Ordained in 1955; moved to the Diocese of New York in 56, where I am
still canonically resident, although I have not lived there since
1971.
I have not been in full time parish work since 1971, although I have
had responsibility for parishes in Connecticut and South Carolina,
as
Vicar and as Interim, as well as part-time assistant. Currently I am
part-time assistasnt at St. Paul's Parish K Street, Washington DC,
where I 'hang out' on Sunday and Wednesday each week.
I earn my living as a Financial Planner and Broker, working
especially with clergy, parishioners and parishes and those who feel
that their assets are too small to receive adequate treatment from
thewell known Investment Companies. My business runs from my home,
and I work by mail and telephone for those of my clients who are not
in the greater DC area. I can be described either as a Conservative
radical, or as a radical conservative, both in poletics and in
theology. A life long Catholic of Anglican persuasion through the
Episcopal Church, I do not have some of the problems some of the
other Catholics have - such as the Church in Wales!
My AOL name is KYPIE (Greek for Kyrie, because AOL would not permit
me as KYRIE in English letters). Address: 2035 Swan's Neck Way
Reston, VA 22091-4032 tel: 703 264 1508 fax 703 758 8021
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Thomas Head (thead at aol.com)
Location unknown
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am a food and travel writer by trade, food and wine editor of
Washingtonian magazine here in Washington, a member of St.
Margaret's
parish, and active in the Episcopal Caring Response to AIDS, in
which
about 45 parishes in this diocese cooperate to fund a full-time AIDS
chaplain and other services for persons with AIDS.
Thomas Head, 1727 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009. Home:
202-328-9770; Office: 202-328-0810; Fax: 202-328-1101.
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Mark F. Heiman (mheiman at carleton.edu)
USA: Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
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Gretchen A. Heinrich (ladybath at aol.com)
USA: California (San Francisco)
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Elaine Henzler (henzleef at snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu)
USA: New York (Buffalo)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I am very new to this list and to the Episcopal Church. My husband
and I are thinking very seriously of joining the Anglican church.
We
have been worshipping in an excellent church in our area where we
feel we are being fed spiritually. We like the Prayer Book and the
structure. We have been there about 6 months and attend a bible
study there for over a year now. We will most likely be beginning
classes in the near future. I have had the blessing of worshipping
at a Anglican Cathedral in Exeter England recently. I will never
forget it.
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Ronald E. Hestand (docron144 at aol.com)
USA: Missouri (St. Louis)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I live in Jennings, MO (a suburb of St. Louis, MO. I'm a member of
St. Stephens' - Furgeson, where I'm a member of the Vestry (Class of
'97). I previously attended St. John's (Arsenal) and Christ Church
Cathedral here in St. Louis, and Christ Church in Warrensburg, MO.
I am a Family Therapist and Certified Addictions Couselor by trade,
and am currently competing my Ph.D. in Family Therapy from St. Louis
University.
I'm new to internet, and the Anglican list, so am sorta learning my
way around here.
At present, I'm weighing entering the priesthood, but am not sure
that is my exact calling. (At 50, one weighs things very
long--before making a career/life change).
I am enjoying the community here, but it takes a while to sorta
catch
on to the threads of converstation. I'm glad to be on line. God
Bless.
Ronald E. Hestand, #6 Lamar Drive, Jennings, MO 63136
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Richard Higginbotham (urhiggin at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
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Mary Ann Hill (mhill at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
USA: Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I'm a 28 yr old SWF w/cat. I work as an admissions and records
officer for the Univ. of Illinois. I'm a parish youth director, a
lay reader/chalice bearer/daily office officiant, among other stuff.
I'm the youth coordinator for the Diocese of Springfield and sit on
the Diocesan Council. I'm an associate of the Society of St. John
the Evangelist and consider myself Anglo-Catholic but not a spike.
I'm trying to figure out if I have a vocation to something. A
vacation would be nice, too.
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Victoria Hill (vhil at seq1.loc.gov)
USA: Washington DC
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Cornelia Hoffman (corneliah at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Kelvin Holdsworth (k.holdsworth at qmw.ac.uk)
England: London
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Jens Holley (holley at clemson.clemson.edu)
USA: South Carolina (Greenville)
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Jim Holman (holmanji at ohsu.edu)
USA: Oregon (Portland)
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Paul R. Honor (p.r.honor at bra0108.wins.icl.co.uk)
England: Reading
Biography last updated Apr 20
Aged 45. Long term Christian who was renewed by Christ 5 years ago.
I
am a worker with young people in a typical inner city area of
Reading
UK. I am married with 4 children and work for ICL Computers (known
as
Datachecker in USA). I am interested in the use of international
networks to further God's work, also in getting the UK Church
interested.
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Francoise Van Horn (librfvh at ucrac1.ucr.edu)
USA: California (Los Angeles)
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Jay Howard (ujhoward at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I am a 55 year old GWM, Professor of English at Northeastern
Illinois
University (Chicago) and Director of Graduate Studies, Member of
Church of the Ascension (Chicago), and "parent" to two adorable
miniature dachshunds (Franklin and Eleanor).
My background in religion is heavily Roman Catholic, having been
baptised into that church and having, now, spent 27 years with my
life companion, a Jesuit trained RC. But it has also been something
of a mixed bag since my mother converted to the Seventh-day
Adventist
church and I also had experiences, quite unsatisfactory, there.
After
worshiping as a Roman Catholic for many years but searching, too,
for
years, I officially became an Episcopalian about 6 years ago and
have
thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the ability openly to
address issues that were often off limits in the RC arena.
I have always been active in church activities. Over the years I
have done a great deal of lay preaching and have functioned in
almost
every capacity open to a lay person in whatever parish I was
attending. As a professor of literature, I am sometimes accused of
"preaching literature" in my graduate seminars. I do agree with
Trollope that the novelist can often perform the same task as the
homilist, and I find that many people who might reject an outright
biblical message are drawn to the same idea when presented through
literature. I've done retreats, Quiet Days, and parish series on
various authors and their religious messages, most recently series
based on the sacramental vision of Flannery O'Connor and the hidden
spiritual messages in the works of Iris Murdoch. I have also worked
with Eliot's Four Quartets as an outline for our own spiritual
journey and, as a matter of fact, begin a new version of that series
next week.
I am on the vestry at Ascension and also the newly formed Search
Committee. I request the prayers of those on this group as we begin
the process of finding a new rector for our parish.
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Len Howard (tas at pegasus.com)
USA: Hawaii (Honolulu)
Biography last updated Jan 13
I was baptized UCC at age 5. Stayed in the Congregational church,
singing in the boy's choir, until age 13 when the family switched to
the Presbyterian. Married a cradle Episcopalian with a strong
family
history of active women in the church. I was confirmed in the
Episcopal Church in 1955 and have been active in various roles ever
since. I have sung in a choir since age 5, and don't quite know how
I would act without that exercise of prayer and praise every Sunday.
I made my Cursillio in 1977 [Hawaii #3], and have been on 12 teams
since then. I became a layreader with chalics license about five
years ago, and went into our Diocesan Institute training program
aboutt four years ago. I was ordained as a Deacon on the 7th of
November, 1993. Professionally, I am an OBGyn physician, and work
currently in the Kaiser HMO in Honolulu. My diaconal ministry is
healing, which is an extension of what I have been doing for the
past
35 years professionally. I was one of the original members of the
ANGLICAN mail group when it sort of split off from the 'FREE
CATHOLIC' group. I have been active in e-mail discussions since
1982, and have been on the Net for about 2.5 years. I look on the
group as another committed comunity in the Body of Christ.
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Timothy Hoyt (thoyt at anchor.uu.holonet.net)
Location unknown
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Ralph Hubbard (ralphub at beacon.regent.edu)
USA: Virginia (Virginia Beach)
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Benjamin Hunnicutt (hunnicut at vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu)
USA: Iowa (Iowa City)
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Stu Hunter (cshunter at uoguelph.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Guelph)
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Willian Hunter (hunterb at pmorcas.army.mil)
Location unknown
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Michael J. Hunt (mhunt at world.std.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Kimberly Hurley (khurley at ucs.indiana.edu)
USA: Indiana (Bloomington)
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Sandra Hutchinson (sandyh at world.std.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I became a Christian in high school because of a charismatic house
fellowship. I became an Episcopalian in college because the
history,
liturgy and tradition I found in this branch of the chutch fed me in
a very way. I like to joke that while the Episcopal church couldn't
have mananged to convert me in the first place, the house fellowship
couldn't have managed to keep me this long.
So far my church homes (over the past 20 years) have included: Good
Shepherd, Rosemont PA; Christ Church, Bronxville NY; Holy Apostles,
Manhattan NY; Ascension, Wakefield RI; and Grace Church, Salem MA.
I
am now living in the Rectory at St. Lukes and St. Margarets in a
shared household (no, I'm not ordained--the church just lets some of
us live here.)
By profession, I'm a wordsmith: a freelance copy editor/proofreader.
By avocation, I'm a writer--science fiction, fantasy, even
horror--mostly unpublished. By conviction I'm an Episcopalian.
So far, in various churches, I've taught Sunday school, run the
Christian ed program, run the acolytes group, taught adult ed,
worked
in the thrift shop, served as treasurer. Right now I'm putting out
the newsletter.
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Michael Ida (ida at casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Evanston)
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Marion de Courcy-Ireland (marion at dur.utoronto.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Toronto)
Biography last updated Apr 18
I'm a cradle Anglican. Born in Montreal in 1938, I lived in England
for a year before coming to Toronto over 20 years ago. No crises of
faith or need to change to another persuasion. I think I fall into
the category of childlike faith. I love bells and smells and all
the
wonderful music of the choral tradition although my regular church
offers only excellent music -- and The Book of Common Prayer to
which
I remain loyal. I notice, however, I have adapted to many of the
changes I run into; it seems to be Cranmer's language that has a
hold
on me. Thus, Rite I is all right.
For about a year and a half I've been a volunteer at an AIDS shelter
run by the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd and wish I could do
much more of this sort of thing. My AIDS ministry is a very
important part of my life and has profoundly affected my
spirituality.
Three grown children and a grandson. I live in the country with my
husband of nearly 2 years (following a 20-year courtship!) and we
both commute to our respective jobs at the University of Toronto. I
sing and garden with a passion. Meyers-Briggs says I'm ENFP;
Eneagram says 2.
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Alan Jackson (alanj32020 at aol.com)
USA: Texas (Houston)
Biography last updated Mar 25
One of the few, the proud, a cradle Episcopalian! Married with one
child, 7. I work as a Geophysicist for a large multinational company
exploring for oil overseas. Currently I oversee our computing
environment, and supervise a staff of 10. Having been through three
major layoffs in two years I have had more opportunities for prayer
and ministry than I would really like.
I recently became a mentor for EFM, I've been teaching Sunday school
(little kiddos, first-third grade) for three years now, and am a
chalice-bearer. I am also the lead guitar for our folk choir, and
play at many other events (Ultreyas, funerals, weddings, etc). I
made Cursillo about 18 months ago, and coincidently, the spiritual
director was John Price, who is also on this list. Hi, John! My wife
is a Stephen Ministry trainer, our Aids Care Team co-founder, and a
truly beautiful person.
Birthdate 3/17/54 (St. Patrick's day) Telephone (713) 827-8236.
Address 1739 Maux, Houston, Tx 77043
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Steve Jackson (sjackson at ftmcclln-amedd.army.mil)
USA: Alabama (Anniston)
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Willard P. Jacobus (ed94conf at aol.com)
USA: Kansas (Kansas City)
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Oran C. Jamison, II (paladin at univscvm.bitnet)
USA: South Carolina (Columbia)
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Alan F. Jesson (afj at ula.cam.ac.uk)
England: Cambridge
Biography last updated Jan 26
I am a professional librarian (for the past 25 years) and for the
latter part of my career have been Librarian for the British and
Foreign Bible Society. I was directly employed by the Society until
1984 when their historical collections were placed on deposit at
Cambridge University Library, and I am now on the payroll of the UL
but seconded to look after the BFBS collections: the best of both
worlds, I think! I am also an Anglican priest (ordained 1992) and
Honorary Assistant Curate at St Andrew's Church, Swavesey, which is
the village where I live. We have 3 churches in our group and may
soon have a 4th. I am also a Chaplain to the Cambridgeshire Army
Cadet Force, a youth organisation for 13-18.75 year olds, boys and
(latterly) girls. Life is therefore rather hectic at times.
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Kris Jones (jonkri at homer.bethel.edu)
USA: Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
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Bollin Madison Millner, Jr. (bollinm at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Evan Kalenik (ekaleni1 at nvn.com)
USA: New Jersey (Newark)
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Romain Kang (romain at pyramid.com)
USA: California (San Jose)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I am a 31 year old single Asian male. I was born in 1961 in
Richmond, Virginia, the second of my father's five children. My
parents both grew in China and met at school in the US. My father
was converted to Christianity there by a Southern Baptist
missionary,
Annabelle Coleman. ("Romain" is both a loose transliteration of my
Chinese name and also intended to sound vaguely like the name
Coleman). My mother's family became Christians earlier, and
included
a Methodist minister.
I grew up among Southern Baptists, but I attended high school at St.
Christoper's in Richmond, which is affiliated with the church
schools
in the Diocese there. My interests musical (violin, voice) and
intellectual were stimulated by my exposure the Episcopal Church
there, so when I went to college in Princeton, I attended Trinity
Church there. I finally got around to baptism and confirmation in
1985. During the summer of 1984, I also hung out at the (then)
Mission Church of St. John the Evangelist, where, to my surprise, it
turns out other ANGLICAN members attend these days.
I currently work with UNIX network interfaces at a computer company
in San Jose, CA, and am a member of St. Mark's, Palo Alto. We are a
small, struggling parish; we have experimented with our Sunday
liturgy over the past five years, starting from Marion Hatchett's
Pre-reformation Eucharistic Liturgies. Our service currently bears
a
resemblance to the inclusive language rite in the Supplemental
Liturgical Texts, but is subject to change with the church seasons.
A couple of years ago, I joined an Education for Ministry class to
take the place of parishoner who was too busy to attend. When this
same parishoner signed up for mentor training but could not attend,
I
again took his place. Now, I am a co-mentor in an EFM group
comprising first and second year students. To me, this is proof
positive that God moves in mysterious ways.
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Catherine Keightley (u9244905 at athmail1.causeway.qub.ac.uk)
Northern Ireland: Belfast
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Robert Kellerman (kellerma at pilot.msu.edu)
USA: Michigan (Lansing)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I was born and raised in Flint, MI, in 1961 to long-time families of
farmers and autoworkers. (As my parents met at AC Spark Plug, I owe
my very existence, in some metaphysical way, to the General Motors
Corporation.) I was raised Roman Catholic, post-Vatican II, in a
very
hip, let's rock the establishment parish. St. Leo's School was a
peculiar blend of Catholic rigor and early 1970s cutting edge
teaching pedagogy, probably the best school I ever went to.
My initial interest in the Episcopal Church came from the music and
liturgy; I've been a choral musician for years and early music
dilletante, playing recorder and singing tenor (and occasionally
countertenor). When I enter heaven, I fully expect that John
Shepard's Missa Cantate will be my soundtrack.
I left the RC Church for a number of years, simply unable to deal
with much of the stands I couldn't accept. I was not attending an
Episcopal Church but had a number of friends who were; I sang
evensong and lessons and carols occasionally at St. Paul's Episcopal
in Flint, attended many Anglican parishes in England, summer of '82,
but nver committed to anything.
I started grad work at Michigan State University in medieval and
Renaissance literature, and came into a department where
spirituality
seemed deeply suspect -- lots of hostile academics and grad students
-- and began the tremendous process of coming out as a gay man,
easily the most defining event of my life. (Not that it's over. You
never STOP coming out.)
Why am I here, now? I haven't fully been able to articulate this --
though certainly watching a few friends die of AIDs, seeing my
Christian friends becoming more balanced, sane and compassionate
than
anybody else I knew, and reading lots of spiritual writing in my
coursework all helped. It'd be easy to say I came to the Episcopal
Church because my work requires an Anglophilism of sorts, but it's
be
more accurate to say that I found this to be a Church which combines
spiritual depth with intellectual rigor. The flexibility -- the fact
that we don't all HAVE to agree -- I find liberating. The liturgy
feeds me. Here I am home.
I'm currently a doctoral candidate, working on a dissertation about
the penitential psalms in English literature (medieval versions,
Wyatt, Donne, Herbert, et al). I attend All Saints Parish in East
Lansing, MI, where I sing in the choir, am a lay reader, serve on
the
music committee, and have just completed the inquirer's class, and
will be received into the Church in mid-April. Welcome me aboard!
Other salient facts: I drink lots of coffee. I have never owned a
car, which, considering my background, is pretty heretical. I will
finish school sometime before, oh, say, the turn of the century. I
enjoy live theater, early music, reading of all types, lately lots
of
contemporary American fiction. I think Shakespeare ought to be
canonized. I could live as comfortably on the Dakota prairie as I
could in east-side Detroit. In short, I am a combination of blue
collar kid who made good and hopeless arts fanatic. I would probably
make a pretty good monastic. My politics lean to the left, but
frankly, any system that allows people plenty of say in what the
common good is going to be and then delivers it would be all right
with me. I see the Church as yet another part of that great noble
experiment we call Building a Better World.
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Joe Kelly (jrkelly at unlinfo.unl.edu)
USA: Nebraska (Lincoln)
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John Kelly (john.kelly at f621.n260.z1.fidonet.org)
Location unknown
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Tom Kennedy (trkgator72 at aol.com)
USA: Washington DC/Maryland
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I live in Chevy Chase, MD. I work at the National Geographic
Society
as the Director of Photography. I am a recent convert to the
Anglican church. I was raised Roman Catholic and my wife was raised
as a Protestant Presbyterian. When our daughter was born, we wanted
her baptised and both felt most comfortable at that point with the
Anglican tradition and the values espoused by our ministers. I feel
like I've again found a spiritual home after years of being "in the
wilderness." I'm hoping to learn from this electronic dialogue more
about Anglican traditions and values and how these values are
incorporated into daily life in our society.
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Carol Kent (ckent at nvn.com)
USA: California (San Francisco)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I'm currently residing in San Mateo, California, attending church in
Pacifica at St. Edmund's about 25 miles away. I'm Sunday School
"superintendent", Lay Eucharistic Minister and musician at my
parish.
I graduated from the Diocese of California School for Deacons in
October, 1992 earning a BTS degree. I'm considering Holy Orders as a
Vocational Deacon. I'm a Third Order Franciscan; chair of the
diocesean commission on Accessability Awareness (we're in the
process
of writing a book).
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Thomas Kerr (tkerr at nvn.com)
USA: Delaware (Wilmington)
Biography last updated Mar 7
I am Canon Pastor at The Cathedral Church of St. John in Wilmington,
Delaware.
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Simon Kershaw (simon.kershaw at smallworld.co.uk)
England: Cambridge
Biography last updated Jan 10
Born: 31 Jan 1959 baptized: 29 Mar 1959 (Easter Day); confirmed: 30
Mar 1969 (Palm Sunday)
Married: Karen, 1986; 2 children: Jennifer (1989), Alexander (1991)
I'm a computer programmer currently working for a company called
Smallworld in Cambridge (that's England, not Mass.). We develop and
sell GIS (Geographical Information System) software. I help develop
and support our `own-brand' database system.
For the last 7 years we have lived in Saint Ives (about 15 miles NW
of Cambridge). We worship in our local parish church, All Saints,
which is high anglo-catholic. I take my turn on the server's rota:
m.c., thurifer, acolyte ... my mother is waiting for my son to be
boat boy---it's okay, Mary Ann, we only have a boat boy on high days
and holy days :-); OTOH, we don't have female servers.
I'm also on the PCC (that's the Parochial Church Council), and a
member of the deanery and diocesan synods. And I'm treasurer of the
local council of churches (Churches Together in Saint Ives, which
brings together CofE, RC, Methodist, United Reformed Church and
Pentecostal).
If pressed, I would describe myself as liberal catholic. I'm one of
those bigots who supports women priests, and opposes
freely-available
abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment (esp. for women priests :-)
etc.
We have an interest in community life and are members of the Friends
of Little Gidding. This place `where prayer has been valid' is
about
10 miles from where we live and, inspired by Nicholas Ferrar and
T.S.
Eliot, houses a community of Christian families and singles called
the Community of Christ the Sower. I am interested in how this list
develops as an Anglican community.
Other topics of interest? Working for the unity of the church.
Bringing up my children to love and serve the Lord. And I'm an
amateur dipper in liturgy, liberal theology, relationship to
science,
church history, what's wrong with the *rest* of the church, etc.
Sometimes I even try and read the Bible. Occasionally, I've been
known to try and relate some of this to the way I live.
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Craig Kesner (u5027 at wvnvm.wvnet.edu)
USA: West Virginia (Morgantown)
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Paul Kesner (u5028 at wvnvm.wvnet.edu)
USA: West Virginia (Morgantown)
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Mark Kessinger (markk at panix.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
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James Kiefer (jek at cu.nih.gov)
USA: Washington DC/Maryland
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Tom Kilton (kilton at uiucvmd.bitnet)
USA: Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
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Bill Kindel (kindel at osf.org)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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J.T. Kittredge (jontom at ozbick.hq.ileaf.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I'm an Anglo male, born in 1962. I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and
Southern Maine. I went to college in Chicago and have lived the last
seven years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was raised in the Liberal
Protestant tradition and discovered High Church Episcopalianism in
college. I have been on the "net" since 1986 through my work. I am a
programmer for a software company (Interleaf, Inc.). I am gay and
have been in a relationship (my first) since 16 January 1993.
I belong to a small urban parish, St Luke & St Margaret. It is one
of
the biggest parts of my life. Over the years I have served as
accolyte, communion bread baker, church school teacher, greeter,
stewardship leader, altar guild member, search committee member,
vestry member, and thurifer. This parish has been my spiritual
school. It has taught me so much about Christ incarnate in his body;
it has opened my eyes and given me gifts beyond what I have given.
In recent months I have felt a stronger need to try to grow in
faith.
To try to learn more, to try to pray more, to try to *want* to pray
more, most fundamentally to have my faith *matter* to me more. I've
responed by joining a study group at church, reading on my own and
trying to set aside a very few minutes (ten to fifteen) in prayer in
the morning. I have found that when my sweetheart is in the shower
is
a good time.
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Patrick Knight (knight at ksuvm.bitnet)
USA: Kansas (Manhattan)
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Scott Knitter (knitters at student.msu.edu)
USA: Michigan (Lansing)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I'm single, 33, a proposal administrator for Electronic Data Systems
Corporation in Lansing, Michigan. I live in East Lansing, Michigan,
a few blocks from the Michigan State University campus, and I attend
nearby All Saints Episcopal Church. I was born in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where I was baptized in Our Lady of Good Hope Roman
Catholic Church; most of my childhood was spent in Rochester Hills,
Michigan, a Detroit suburb, and I was confirmed at St. Irenaeus RC
Church in Rochester Hills.
In 1984 I began attending St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Rochester
(no Hills) and was received as an Anglican by Bp. H. Coleman McGehee
during the Great Vigil of Easter at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul
in Detroit. I didn't so much run away from the Roman Catholic
Church
as run to Anglicanism. The attractions for me were the beauty and
relative simplicity of Episcopal liturgy as I discovered it in the
1979 Book of Common Prayer and my love of Anglican sacred music as I
discovered it in music history courses in the MSU School of Music.
After a couple of years as an Anglican, I discovered
Anglo-Catholicism; it is indeed possible in the Diocese of Michigan
to take two years to ever hear of A-C approaches to sacraments and
worship. We're just east of the biretta belt, and the parishes I've
been a member of both have proud low-church heritages. Friends
visiting my house for the first time gasp at my admittedly excessive
collection of hymnals, prayer books, Bibles, and books about
liturgy.
As a non-Roman Catholic layperson, I have no business owning a
complete Sacramentary, for instance. But liturgy is what I think
about constantly when I'm not participating in it; I even see
liturgical connections in the festivities surrounding a Michigan
State home football game.
I encounter God most powerfully in worship that reaches through the
centuries and joins us with those "on another shore and in a greater
light" as well as the faithful throughout the world. This is what I
found again in Anglicanism, and I continue to meet God in both
comforting and challenging experiences of the Divine Office, Holy
Eucharist, Education for Ministry (EFM - I'm in my 3rd year), and
our
parish choir (baritone, cantor, and infrequent conductor). I'm
seeking spiritual direction right now, feeling somewhat
directionless, and praying for clarity of gifts and ministry.
Things are just a bit too comfortable right now, and I've a strong
feeling God has a job for me: I want to know what it is, and I want
to take it up joyfully and confidently. ANGLICAN is a tremendous
source of challenge, fun, and friendship, and I look forward to
meeting more of you in person over the next year or so (I'll call
first). <g> God bless one and all...Scott
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Robert Kochersberger (rckeg at unity.ncsu.edu)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
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Dorothy Koenig (dkoenig at library.berkeley.edu)
USA: California (San Francisco)
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Norman Kraft (nkraft-ang at bkhouse.cts.com)
USA: California (Los Angeles)
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Carl Krauthauser (carl at bach.udel.edu)
USA: Delaware (Wilmington)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I was born and raised Roman Catholic 29 years ago, and though I have
not always felt my Faith as intensely as I do now, I've never really
wavered in my fidelity to communion with Rome. I met my wife, who
is
Episcopalian, 3 years ago, thus coming into close contact with
someone who wasn't RC. This is not to say I've never met or known
anyone who wasn't Roman Catholic, it is simply to say I've never
probed anyone's Faith who wasn't RC. Incidentally, up until my
wife,
I had never dated anyone who wasn't RC, though, to be sure, that was
purely happenstance; the Church was never going to dictate who I
should or should not marry, obviously enough. Though I would never
become Episcopalian, it does not mean I am not intensely curious
about your practices and traditions, and especially with how you do
theology (or don't do it). The relevance of this for me stems from
the fact that my wife and I agreed that when, through the Grace of
God, we have children, we will raise them in the traditions and
practices of both Churches. The children, when they have reached
maturity, will decide for themselves which Communion is right for
them. In this fashion we believe that the rift which separates our
two Churches will lend itself to healing when all people understand
what each side is saying and also understand what is important and
why it is important. Our children will be comfortable with both
Churches, and perhaps through this, there can be some healing, or at
least a better start. I have learned immensely from all of you, and
for that, you have my gratitude. I thoroughly enjoy reading the
posts and always look forward to whatever you have to say. I hope
you
do not mind responses and critiques that are not really Anglican in
flavour. Some reflections from a pilgrim seeking Truth and Love.
Dominus et pax vobiscum. Have a blessed and happy Easter!
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Patrick Kucera (stigmata at minerva.cis.yale.edu)
USA: Connecticut (New Haven)
Biography last updated Apr 7
Patrick James Zachary Thaddeus Bartholomeux Kucera is a seminarian
at
Yale Divinity School. He will be graduated with a Masters Of
Divinity and a Masters of Sacred Theology (Homiletics). Patrick's
theological focus is stigmatic appearances, mysticism, preaching and
angelology. Patrick is canonically resident in the Diocese of Los
Angeles. He is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. He is a rabid
Libertarian and is active in civil disobedience causes nationwide.
He is 30-years-old but has experienced enought to last two
lifetimes.
His favorite color is purple and his favorite movie is "The Last
Temptation of Christ." He can cook, clean, sew, do laundry and fix
his own car.
Patrick J. Z. Kucera; Yale Divinity School. 409 Prospect Street,
New Haven, CT 06511
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Bill Kupersmith (blawrkwy at uiamvs.bitnet)
USA: Iowa (Iowa City)
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Liz LaFrance (eal93002 at uconnvm.bitnet)
USA: Connecticut (Hartford)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I am currently a graduate student in Sociology at the University of
Connecticut. Once I begin my Ph.D. (Feb 1995) I plan to specialize
in medical sociology and feminist theory.
I was baptized in the Episcopal church and do not remember a time
in
my life when I have not been involved in some way, shape, or form.
I
attend St. Mark's Episc. Chapel right here on the UCONN campus.
It's
unique in that it is not just a campus chapel; it is a parish as
well. A large number of faculty and staff are members so it gives
one a sense of community on this campus of 20,000.
I was one of the youth advisors at my former parish (Church of the
Messiah, Santa Ana, CA). I served in this capacity the fours years
I
was an undergraduate at Chapman University (Orange, CA). I've
decided to take a break from youth ministy in order to avoid
complete
burnout. I hope that after a a year (or two) off I will get
involved
in youth ministry again. My other interest, besides Sociology, is
music. I enjoy singing and have my minor in vocal music. I'm
managing to fit a voice lesson in every week but other than that the
sociology department keeps me pretty busy. Are there any other
singing sociologists out there?
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Barbara Laufersweiler (bjk111 at psu.edu)
USA: Pennsylvania (State College)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I grew up in Seattle, Washington, and attended the Unitarian church
where Bob Fulghum was minister (he of "All I needed to know I
learned
in kindergarten" fame) because that's where Mom took us on Sundays
and Christmas Eve; encountered Christianity in high school through
friends' experiences with an Assemblies of God church; and shed most
of it in college (University of Washington, atmospheric science,
1986). I began discovering pre-1970 Christianity--a/k/a the history
of the church!--and liturgical churches; came to State College,
Pennsylvania ("equally inaccessible from all directions"!), in 1989
for grad school in meteorology at Penn State; and married Mark in
May
1992 in an Episcopalian ceremony.
I have read the Anglican mailing list since it began; was confirmed
just after Easter 1993; have resolved to finish writing my master's
thesis this year; and am adjusting to post-PhD life for Mark
(meteorology) and the bated-breath feelings of his job search. I
produce publications and run the bookstore at a local environmental
center and am the Mac & world-wide web relative-expert there. I
sing
in the four-person choir at St Francis Episcopal Ministry at Penn
State, and am working to form an altar guild in that community. I'm
restricting even my book "shopping" trips to the university main
library :) :) :), as I try to live more simply and build community
at
work, home, church, and with other friends. I'm 31, and we really
want to take the Big Step this year: it's time for kids!
Address: Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, The Pennsylvania
State
University. (814) 863-2000
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Phil Lawler (bs_phill at seqeb.gov.au)
Location unknown
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M.W. Lehman (mlehman at vma.cc.nd.edu)
USA: Indiana (South Bend)
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Bradley Lennon (blennon at io.org)
Canada: Ontario (Toronto)
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Dan Lester (alileste at idbsu.bitnet)
USA: Idaho (Boise)
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Sally Lieber (slieber at ursus.ccmail.com)
USA: California (San Jose)
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Betsy Linstrom (lins0005 at gold.tc.umn.edu)
USA: Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
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Darin R. Lovelace (lovelace at stat.uiowa.edu)
USA: Iowa (Iowa City)
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Steve Lowe (slowe at admin.aurora.edu)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I became an Episcopalian in 1969, the year that I met and married my
lovely wife. At the time, I was a non-practicing Church of Christ.
We decided to have only one church in our family. It was easier for
me to change than my wife who is a cradle Episcopalian.
After my confirmation and marriage, we have worshipped in many
churches, here in the United States and overseas. I was on active
duty and the Lowe family was a military nomad. So, we worshipped in
the local civilian parish or military chapel.
Upon my retirement, we moved to the Diocese of Chicago where we
worship at Saint Marks, Geneva. For us, it is a great place to
worship the Lord our God. Our rector left in July 1993 so we are
actively engaged in our search process.
Steve Lowe, Director, Computing and Information Services
Aurora University, 347 S. Gladstone Avenue, Aurora, IL 60506
PHONE: 708-844-5290
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William MacKaye (wmackaye at cap.gwu.edu)
USA: Washington DC
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James Edward Aidan Mackay (milo!mackay at plains.nodak.edu)
USA: North Dakota (Fargo)
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Wmichael Mahoney (wmmah at delphi.com)
USA: Virginia (Washington)
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Mary Mainwaring (mary at oicmm.oic.com)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Biography last updated Jan 10
My name is pronounced Mannering. I acquired the name in 1964 when I
married a Canadian mathematician and crossed the Atlantic to Canada
for a couple of years. We haven't made it back. I've lived longer on
this continent now than I did over there.
I am Welsh, and the only member of my family of origin who lives on
this side of the ditch. I travel "home" as often as I can.
I am an educator and have taught in many different programs in my 3
countries. Currently I work in a literacy center here in Raleigh,
NC.
I was married in St. Catwg's Church, Gelligaer. My son was baptised
at St. Alban's church, Ottawa, his father's old church, and my
daughter at St. Paul's in Charlottetown, PEI. Later we were members
of All Saints (Westboro) in Ottawa, where our daughter was married
this last summer. I spent a year on staff at St. John the
Evangelist's Church in Ottawa, and was also on staff at St. Mark's,
Raleigh NC. We are currently attending St. Mark's.
My church experience includes all the lay activities such as vestry,
lay reader, chalice bearer, LEM, running Church School, organizing
conferences and events, being on diocesan commissions, going to
conferences and meetings, ECW, baptismal/confirmation prep,
writing/editing church mags and writing study programs. I even got
paid as lay assistant or DRE for a time. I also ran camps and did
leadership training, spoke and gave workshops in various places...
I notice that all this is in the past tense... right now I am
running
an EFM group, (no longer being Diocesan co-ordinator) and in Feb I
will be reading exams (GOEs). I still go to church...and sing in the
choir. But I have a lot of uncertainty about what I should be doing
there. Somehow the church has got pretty stale and less meaningful
for me. Not Christianity or the Anglican way of being Christian,
just
the current state of affairs where I am.
My feeling could be summed up by saying that I think that God
doesn't
need the Episcopal Church, but the Episcopal Church really needs
God.
Some of our people seem to see it the other way round. I'm not quite
sure what I am supposed to do about it...
I'm waiting for the next adventure.
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Rebecca MaloY (maloyra at ucunix.san.uc.edu)
USA: Ohio (Cincinnati)
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Margaret Manion (manion at libvax.uml.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Lowell)
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Steven P. Marsh (marshrecord at delphi.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I live in Suffern, NY, in Rockland County, outside of NYC. I am a
member of Grace Church, Nyack, NY, one of the many (or so it seems!)
rector-less parishes in the Diocese of New York.
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Dave Martinuk (dmartinu at cln.etc.bc.ca)
Canada: British Columbia (Vancouver)
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George H. Martin (geoinmn at aol.com)
USA: Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I'm the Vicar of a new mission in Eagan Minnesota, now 7 years old,
which is called Ss. Martha and Mary. Previous to that I was rector
of
St. Luke's in Minneapolis, and served churches in Nebraska and Ohio.
I'm a graduate of Bexley Hall (1967) and have a D.min from Virginia
(1990). Since its inception in 1978 I've been the Executive Director
of the Church Ad Project (formerly the Episcopal Ad Project). The
project continues and those interested can call 1-800-331-9391. I
work with the National Office of Congregational Development as an
Associate. In my consulting ministry I teach about church growth,
new
churches, and evangelism. My wife Caroline and I have four grown
children and two grandchildren.
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Joseph Mathews (joseph.mathews at aquila.com)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
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Don Matthews (matthewd at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Hamilton)
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Robert Matzat (dnrwp::matzar at dnrmai.dnr.wisc.gov)
USA: Wisconsin (Madison)
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Robert Mayer (robertma at hpwrc04.mayfield.hp.com)
USA: California (San Jose)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I've always been a priest-worker. Ordained in the Diocese of
California; deacon in 1966, priest in 1971 by Bishop G. Richard
Millard. Read for ordination, in addition to some course work at
CDSP. Worked in the computer field since graduating from college.
Now a member of the Diocese of El Camino Real, since it divided from
California.
Assigned to St. Jude's, Cupertino, CA, as non-stipendiary assistant.
Many assignments as interim pastor. Various committees. Married;
four children; two grandchildren.
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Gordon McBride (kmcbride at gas.uug.arizona.edu)
USA: Arizona (Tucson)
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Ruth McCollom (ruth at scriba.techlaw.com)
USA: Oregon (Portland)
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Paul K. McCutcheon (naslib01 at sivm.bitnet)
USA: Washington DC
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Glenn T. McDavid (gmcdavid at mercury.mcs.com)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
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William McDonald (wkm at umcc.umich.edu)
USA: Michigan (Ann Arbor)
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Robert McElroy (rmcelroy at ers.bitnet)
USA: Washington DC
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Jane McGuire (jmcguire at unm.edu)
USA: New Mexico (Albuquerque)
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Alec McLure (alec at mit.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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J. McMillan (jmcmill at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
USA: Iowa (Iowa City)
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Margaret J. Meachem (meachem at acsu.buffalo.edu)
USA: New York (Buffalo)
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G. Del Merritt (del at giant.intranet.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Linda Miller-Hart (millerha at bvsd.k12.co.us)
USA: Colorado (Boulder)
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Wes Miller (wmiller at rex.mnsmc.edu)
USA: Minnesota (Winona)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
My name is Wes Miller and I'm a sociologist at Saint Mary's College
of Winona MN. I have been a member of the Episcopal Church for
eight
years having "escaped" from a fundamentalist Baptist background. I
attend St. Paul's in Winona where I am a layreader and facilitate a
Sunday morning Bible study. I am married and have one child. My
chief hobby is playing old-times tunes on the 5 string banjo.
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David Mills (71514.2311 at compuserve.com)
USA: Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)
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David Miner (dminer at mailer.fsu.edu)
USA: Florida (Tallahassee)
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Peter Mitham (pmitham at ualtavm.bitnet)
Canada: Alberta (Edmonton)
Biography last updated Jan 10
Currently working towards a Master's degree in the English
department
of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I am a
practising Anglican whose roots in the Faith extend backwards into
family and cultural history. As such, I've been nurtured in the
faith
since birth, and at one point even considered entering the ordained
ministry. A blind entry into diocesan politics eventually made me
realize that I could probably be of greater use to God in a lay
capacity at the moment . . . And so I took up English.
I like to place myself in the middle of the road, but find I have
the
odd outburst/propensity for both evangelical and Anglo-Catholic
expressions of Christianity. Among my pet peeves are clerical
dogmatism (especially when I don't agree with the dogma!) and the
loss of touch with the past among both younger members and the odd
ecclesiastic; the lack of young people disturbs me, as a young
person
(24), as I sometimes wonder what will remain of the Church I have
been raised in ... But then I have a stubborn faith, too, that
supports me.
There. Baptised two days after birth, what more can I say?
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Brenda Monroe (prerebre at aol.com)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am from the USA, a town outside of Chicago called Wheaton (in
Illinois). I am an information/news junkie, so this service
fulfills
my desire to know what's going on, and to know it first.
I am a cradle Episcopalian, and am currently "in the process" (as
the
phrase goes) in the diocese of Chicago. God willing, I will be
entering seminary in the fall of 1995. At the moment I make my
living as a PC trainer and programmer.
My rector and church choir director are also subscribers to this
list, which seems pretty amazing since there are so few people
listed
under the Chicago area!
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Louis B. Moore (lbmoore at tchden.org)
USA: Colorado (Denver)
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Michael Morgan (m-morgan at clus1.ulcc.ac.uk)
England: London
Biography last updated Jan 19
I'm a librarian at a theological college of the University of London
in the UK. Heythrop College was founded, and is still largely
funded,
by the Jesuits. By now, of course, we are not solely a theological
seminary; students of all traditions or none study here.
I found out about ANGLICAN fairly recently; I always sign up to
lists dealing with religion, church history, philosophy etc. to pass
on to others here anything that might be interesting or relevant to
studies. I'm always trying to get the faculty here to make greater
use of computing, including the networks.
Michael Morgan, Deputy Librarian. Heythrop College. University of
London. Kensington Square. LONDON W8 5HQ.
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James Mouw (mouw at midway.uchicago.edu)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
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Kenneth C. Moyle (moylek at mcmaster.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Hamilton)
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Bruce Mullin (phirm at unity.ncsu.edu)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am Robert Bruce Mullin, and am Professor of Religion at North
Carolina State University in Raleigh. I am married with one child.
My field of research is Religious History. I have published four
boks in the field, but am probably best known for my study of
antebellum high church movement in America Episcopal Vision/American
Reality: High Church Theology and Social Thought in Evangelical
America. I am presently at work on a study of the idea of the
miraculous in modern reigious thought.
I am an active lay person in the Episcopal Church (which I entered
while at college at William and Mary), and attend St. Timothy's
Church in Raleigh. I also serve on the Standing Commission on
Ecumenical Relations of the National Episcopal Church, and
occasionally get called upon to serve on other sub-committees. I am
also a member of the Guild of Scholars, an association of Episcopal
academicians who meet annually at General Seminary. Finally I am one
of the directors of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.
If I had to describe myself theologically and liturgically I would
be
somewhat right of center and on the high side.
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William Murphy (murphyw at summer.bt.co.uk)
England: Lymeswold
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Paul Nancarrow (nancarps at ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu)
USA: Tennesee (Nashville)
Biography last updated Jan 10
Although I am originally from Michigan, I am currently residing in
Tennessee, where I am attending Vanderbilt University. I am 37 years
old, married, and have two beautiful and wild children, ages 6-1/2
and 5. My wife and I met about 13 years ago, at the University of
Minnesota, where we were both working on graduate degrees in English
literature. She completed her PhD; I stopped with an MA when I began
to realize I couldn't focus my peculiar range of interests
sufficiently to do doctoral work in that field. When Paula had
finished her in-residence requirements, we moved to the Chicago
area,
where I began at Seabury-Western seminary. I was ordained a priest
in
1987. After several years in parish work in Michigan, we've now come
to Nashville where I've started toward a PhD in theology.
My first appearance on this list was an invitation to correspond
with
folks about their "religious experiences," and that seems like a
good
way to introduce in this bio my particular interests and goals in my
studies and in my ministry. I am fascinated by questions of
religion,
consciousness, imagination, the "really real," and the relations
between them. I have always liked what Samuel Taylor Coleridge said
about the "primary imagination": that it is "the prime agent of all
human perception and the repetition in the finite mind of the
eternal
act of Creation in the infinite I AM." Imagination in this broad
sense (meaning so much more than "fiction" or "daydreaming") is that
process by which we assemble the raw data of our sense organs into a
perceptual world -- and, if contemporary physics is right, more than
just the data of our sense organs; some suggest that we are nodes in
a quantum interference pattern that holographically encodes the
whole
of the universe. What that might mean for physics I don't know; for
epistemologists, it suggests that "imagination" is that which
unfolds
the world from the energy-field substratum in which it is enfolded.
We might literally be imagining the world into existence. And that,
to follow Coleridge, is a kind of human participation in the
creative
act of God, our share in the life of the Logos (John 1:1-4), our
part
in the outplaying of Wisdom (Prov 8:30-31). Religion, again in its
broadest meaning, is a way of training the imagination to
participate
more deeply in the divine creativity, to image more nearly in our
own
time and place what God is infinitely and eternally. Christian
religion is that form of imaginal training that follows Jesus and
his
community as the model for true-imagining. And Christ-imaging (if
that term is not too stretched) touches everything we do: our
relationships, our morals, our social actions, our hopes, our loves,
our psyches, our prayer, our worship. So for me the relevant kinds
of
religious questions are: how can we participate more deeply in the
divine imagination? how can we open our conscious minds to more of
the power and the passion of imaginal creativity? how do our
imagings
work on the world -- on ecology, society, interpersonality -- in
ways
both obvious and subtle? how can we contribute to the "finite
repetition of the infinite I AM" so that the whole universe and
every
member of it enjoys its being more fully and more abundantly?
Enough disquisition. This is, after all, supposed to be a SIMPLE
biography, right? Religious epistemology aside, what I can share
about myself is that I love to ponder things, I get a kick out of
good science fiction that stretches my imagination about the
how-ness
of things, I was deeply influenced by reading Charles Williams in
college, I think process theology has a good technical vocabulary
for
exploring the kinds of issues that drive me, I love to listen to
music and try to SEE what it sounds like, preaching and celebrating
the sacraments are two of the greatest joys of my life, the Internet
is amazing, returning to academic life at 37 with two children is
more of a challenge than it seemed at first, I'm not an
issue-oriented person, I can ramble on forever if I'm not careful.
Anybody still reading? I take great interest in being able to share
thoughts with Anglicans from all over the world through this
electronic forum, and I'm glad to be (virtually) here.
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Clay Nelson (claynelson at delphi.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Harry G. Newman (hnewman at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
USA: Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
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Mary O'Shaughnessy (oshma at echonyc.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I am also an Anglo-Catholic who was raised Roman Catholic. When
people ask "what happened?", my answer is, "The Holy Spirit moved me
to the community God wanted me in." I didn't leave the Roman
Communion; I joined the Anglican Communion.
I'm brand new to this list, and to the Net in general. I am 29,
G(celibate)WF who is a business analyst at a large publisher in New
York City. I am still pecking away at a B.A. in Greek and Latin at
City University when I have the chance, and my significant others
are
also of the feline variety. I belong to the Church of Saint Luke in
the Fields in Greenwich Village, and am a master of
ceremonies/subdeacon/thurifer/etc., a sponsor in the formation
program, and parish computer guru;-).
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Mark Oakland (oakland at ee.tamu.edu)
USA: Texas (College Station)
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Mary Jane Oakland (m2.mjo at isumvs.iastate.edu)
USA: Iowa (Ames)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am a member of the Episocopal Parish of Ames, Iowa. When we moved
here there were two churches (St. David's and St. John's) with one
vestry and one budget. But due to sliding numbers in both churches
and a decrease from 3 priests to 1, we are now worshipping only at
St. John's by the Campus. I am a lay euchristic minister,
coordinator of the pastoral care committee and an EFM mentor. I am
on the faculty of Iowa State - teach and direct programs in dietetic
education and do community nutrition research. My husband is on the
faculty at Drake University (Des Moines), and we have three sons -
the youngest is a high school senior. We were very active
Methodists
before being confirmed in the Diocese of South Dakota in 1979. I am
a postulant for the diaconate.
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Donna Odell (donna at unr.edu)
USA: Nevada (Reno)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I joined the Episcopal church about fifteen years ago when, as a
single parent of two sons, I realized that because of personal and
physical circumstances (several moves within a three-year period),
that I had not had my kids to church for some time.
I lived at that time at Lake Tahoe, and the church that seemed to
have the community I was looking for was also the church that
spawned
Malcolm Boyd, who I knew only through his writings. Well, they
immediately made us, (myself a former Methodist) feel welcome, and I
felt that I had arrived *home*.
In subsequent years, I attended Cursillo, served on the vestry, was
also director of a community outreach program that provided
everything from food, housing, counseling, and general assistance to
people needs. Those early years (for me) being in the Episcopal
church brought the clear challenge to live the word of Christ in my
entire life rather than in segments as I chose.
Cursillo was probably the event that provided the impetus to begin
to
act out what I said I believed. Seeing others that actually
achieved
it was enough inspiration for me to want to attempt it, too. I fall
very short of doing so but my committment has helped me get through
some rough moments.
I work as assistant to the director of the library/learning resource
center at the local community college (Truckee Meadows C.C. for
those
of you who know Reno). The staff and my boss, the director, are
frequently at war with one another and I have found myself in the
middle in more than one situation. I take some solace in my one
real
friend on the staff, Harry, and the books. (I'm a book junkie -
it's
a little like a druggie working in a pharmacy, but I am getting help
:-))
After getting my kids launched in college, (to go back to my earlier
years at Tahoe and in the ECUSA), I went back to school, the Univ.
of
Nevada, Reno and found myself commuting up and down a narrow, often
snow covered mountain (high!) road at night after classes and
decided
it was time to move to Reno. I moved here shortly after running into
Pierre, an Episcopalian from Tahoe's west shore (I lived on the east
shore) who had been recently divorced and he and I moved here
together. That makes it sound as if it is a relationship of
convenience. It's actually been the most joyful and loving
relationship I've ever been in. For those and other reasons, we have
chosen not to marry but remain a committed if unconsecrated couple.
(Our church family here, at St. Stephen's, has accepted us as such.)
We've been together for over seven years now and both of us see life
together as a given.
Sorry to be so wordy. This is not like me. Even so, I fear that I
have not really shared enough for you to really get to know me, but
perhaps later posts will begin to give you a more rounded picture of
me. I have been accused of not being very good at sharing myself so
I don't feel really adequate to do so honestly. (Probably a result
of NEVER having shared myself until well into adulthood.)
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Fernando Jose Oliveira deSouza(frous at dmat.ufpe.br)
Brazil: Pernambuco
Biography last updated Jan 10
I read the Anglican list on behalf of Professor Robinson Cavalcanti.
Robinson Cavalcanti was born at June 21st, 1944. He is married and
has a son and a daughter. He has received two undergraduate degrees
-
Social Sciences and Law - at Recife, Pernambuco. His graduate degree
is in Political Sciences at IUPERJ - Rio de Janeiro. He is Professor
of Political Sciences at UFPE (Federal University of Pernambuco) and
was also at UFRPE (Federal Rural University of Pernambuco). For the
last two years, he has also been the Director of the Center of
Philosophy and Human Sciences at UFPE.
Professor Cavalcanti is an Anglican Minister in the Episcopal Church
of Brazil. He has taken a graduate degree in Theology in England and
often participates in short courses and seminars, particularly in
U.S.A. . He is founder and Reverend of a church here (in fact, a
"mission") that still does not have its definitive site because its
financial support is insufficient.
He has founded a religious (evangelist) institution with political
orientation, MCDC (Democratic Christian Movement of Center). He was
a
substitute delegate to the Lausanne Committee for Evangelization of
the World and assessor (adviser) of Universitary Biblical Alliance
of
Brazil.
Professor Cavalcanti is currently a member of several societies:
- Educational and Cultural Academy of Pernambuco;
- Latin-American Theological Society;
- Theological Committee of the World-wide Evangelical Alliance:
Unity
Ethics & Society.
He is author of 9 books (in PORTUGUESE):
- "The Origins of `Coronelismo' " (`Coronelismo' is a social and
political phenomenon in Brazil that has no direct translation into
English; the closest word is "Colonelism" [sic].
- "Christ in the Brazilian university".
- "Christianity & Politics".
- "The Church: Agency of historical transformation" (2 volumes).
- "The Christian, this `boring' person".
- "A Blessing named sex".
And two other books on the relations between Religion and Sexuality,
a subject which he researchs on. As political scientist, his
research
subjects are the relations between Religion and Politics, and
international relations.
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Margaret Ordoubadian (mordoubadian at acad1.mtsu.edu)
USA: Tennessee (Nashville)
Biography last updated Apr 20
Born 9 July 1936, Hillsville, VA; Husband: Reza Ordoubadian (m.
1957). Children: 2 daughters, 2 sons, 7 grandsons. Job: Associate
Professor, English. Church: St. Paul's Episcopal. Cursillo; EFM,
Year 2; EFM Mentor Training, Session I.
I was born into a Baptist family, went to Duke University, and spent
my junior year at the University of Exeter where I first experienced
the Anglican Church. I met my husband, a native Iranian, when I
returned for my senior year at Duke. We married the next year and
moved to Middle Tennessee where we lived one year in Nashville, four
in Bell Buckle, and the rest in Murfreesboro. I joined the Episcopal
Church in 1965 when a dear friend Franklin Ferguson was called here
as priest.
The church, and St. Paul's in particular, has been the safe harbor
of
my life. Our grown children are consciously pursuing their spiritual
journeys and in the process of training up their children in the
faith, or at least to be aware of the spiritual dimensions of life.
However they are doing it, I am much gratified by the results. A
few
years ago my husband who was culturally a Moslem and intellectually
an atheist, experienced a Pauline conversion so drastic that he was
baptized and confirmed into the church. He attended Cursillo, became
a lay reader, and has graduated from EFM.
Looking toward retirement in two years, I am in the midst of several
projects which will probably not come to fruition until I am no
longer grading papers and sitting in committee meetings. I am
interested in fairy tales, mythology, Jung and Jungians, gender
studies, and women's spirituality.
I am convinced that Jesus is Lord, that He is alive and well in our
midst, that the love of God is pouring down upon us at all times,
that the power of the Holy Spirit is at work all about us, and that
the world is in need of our witness and our love and, most of all,
our prayers.
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Daniel Page (page at binah.cc.brandeis.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
No biography on file
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Grant Pair (jpair at ua1vm.ua.edu)
USA: Alabama (Tuscaloosa)
No biography on file
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Michael Palazzolo (ppalazzolo at ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu)
USA: Ohio (Oberlin)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Hi! I'm Michael Palazzolo. Born 10/14/62 in St. Louis. Confirmed
St. Michael and St. George, St. Louis in 1983. Moved to Oberlin
1986. I am a member of Christ Church, Oberlin since 1990. I spent
four years in the Mennonite Church before that. I am junior warden
(until Oct. Yeah!) of my parish. I have been a Catechist (leading
the adult class) for the past four years. I have been on the
Worship
commission and the Parish Life commission (chaired that one for
three
years). I play the piano for Taize prayer services and other
"informal" services.
I live with my signifigant other (Bill) and a good friend (Ralph),
the parish secretary, two dogs, Sebastian and Aelred, two gerbils
and
15 birds. I raise finches and have just started with soft-bills. I
play keyboards and celtic harp. I am Interlibrary loan borrowing
supervisor at the Oberlin College library. I really like my job and
I love my parish. I am definitely a Rite II person and I love Taize
chant (Which we do during communion most Sundays).
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Clyde Parrish (clyde.parrish at uc.edu)
USA: Ohio (Cincinnati)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I grew up in Alabama (born in '58) and attended the University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa. I was active in my home church (United
Methodist) and in an ecumenical campus ministry at UA. In my junior
year I joined a progressive Presbyterian church at the University,
taught Sunday School, and occasionally was asked by the Pastor to
fill in as guest preacher.
I was considering going to seminary after I earned my B.A., and was
offered a fellowship to Union Seminary in Virgina, but I had
reservations about the traditional lifestyle of a Presbyterian
pastor. I went to graduate school at Florida State University in
educational admin./counseling and remained active in campus
ministry.
During my first job at the University of Texas, I began my wonderful
coming out process as a Gay man. Continuing my interest in
Christian
ministry, I also took a coursework at the Episcopal Theological
Seminary of the Southwest. (My late uncle was an Episcopal priest.)
Almost ten years ago, I became Assistant Dean of the College of
Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati, where I
also
teach management courses. Additionally, I've also served on our
ecumenical campus ministry board here.
I've always wanted to serve as an ordained minister, so I began
seeking out independent Gay & Lesbian clergy a couple of years ago
so
that I could find out how they became ordained. I knew that the
Episcopal Bishop of So. Ohio wasn't going to consider me as a
postulant. He seems to have turned down all openly Gay candidates.
Likewise, the Presbyterian Church in the area won'y accept Gay
candidates, although our wonderful Mt. Auburn Pres. Ch. is a warm
and
accepting congregation for Gays & Lesbians.
God worked with me along the way and opened doors to me which I
never
would have thought possible: One of the priests I contacted told me
that his parish, Holy Trinity Community Church of Dallas was
affiliated with the International Council of Community Churches (not
to be confused with the MCC). To make a long story short, the
priest, Fr. Wright, sponsored me for ordination in the ICCC, the
national Council agreed, and on June 20, 1993, I was ordained in a
very warm service in Dallas in the presence of friends from
Cincinnati and old friends from my days in Texas.
Now I continue in my post as Assistant Dean, and also serve on the
Social Concerns Comission of the ICCC, the AIDS Pastoral Care
Committee here in Cincinnati, and am trying to form a liturgical Gay
& Lesbian supportive congregation here in the greater Cincinnati
area. Somewhere along the way, I hope to complete a D.Min. program.
I'm a busy boy, a little burnt out on my administrative
responsibilities, but ever hopeful of working with my Gay brothers
here to establish a small community for worship and care.
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The Rev. James T. Payne (jtpayne at delphi.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Denis Paz (dgpaz at clemson.bitnet)
USA: South Carolina (Greenville)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
Denis Paz, Professor of History at Clemson University, South
Carolina. B.A., 1967, M.A., 1969, University of North Texas; Res.
Fee, 1971-73, London School of Economics; Ph.D., University of
Michigan; Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Research Speciality,
Victorian English history.
Teaching activities include: first-year Western Civilization;
advanced undergraduate English history; M.A. seminars in Victorian
history; active in Advanced Placement European History as reader of
examinations, former member of Test Development Committee, and
director of institutes for high-school teachers.
Publications include: BOOKS: _Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-
Victorian England_, Stanford University Press, 1992; _The
Priesthoods
and Apostasies of Pierce Connelly: A Study in Victorian Conversion
and Anti-Catholicism_; Lewiston, N.Y., and Queenston, Ont.: Edwin
Mellen Press, 1986; _The Politics of Working-Class Education in
Britain, 1830-50_; Manchester University Press, 1980; distributed in
the United States by the University of Massachusetts Press.
ARTICLES: "Bonfire Night in Mid-Victorian Northants: The Politics of
a Popular Revel," _Historical Research: The Bulletin of the
Institute
of Historical Research_ (1990); "Nebraska," _The Black Press in the
Middlewest, 1865-1985_, edited by Henry Lewis Suggs, Westport,
Conn.:
Greenwood Press, forthcoming; "John Albert Williams and Black
Journalism in Omaha, 1895-1929," _Midwest Review_ (1988);
"Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Irish Stereotyping, and Anti-Celtic Racism
in
Mid-Victorian Working-Class Periodicals," _Albion_ (1986); "The
Limits of Bureaucratic Autonomy in Early Victorian Administration,"
_Historian_ (1986-87); "The Anglican Response to Urban Social
Dislocation in Omaha, 1875-1920," _Historical Magazine of the
Protestant Episcopal Church_ (1982); "'For Zion's Sake Will I Not
Hold My Peace': John Williams, Radical Omaha Priest, 1877-1914,"
_Nebraska History_ (1982); "A Study in Adaptability: The Episcopal
Church in Omaha, 1856-1919," _Nebraska History_ (1981); "Monasticism
and Social Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Case of
Father Huntington," _Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal
Church_, (1979).
Member: American Historical Association, Historical Society of the
Episcopal Church, Church of England Record Society, North American
Conference on British Studies, Amnesty International, American Civil
Liberties Union, National Holocaust Museum.
Personal: Born Riverside, Cal., 1945; raised San Antonio, Texas.
Married, 2 children, 2 dogs. Active in Parent/Teacher Association,
precinct Democratic Party, election poll manager. Cradle
Episcopalian
(baptised by Naval chaplain, 1946); left Church, 1967-77; returned,
but study of history of religions, history of liturgy, and
reflection
on life in general now leads me to deny the existence of a
supernatural dimension to human or natural reality. Communicant,
Holy Trinity, Clemson, with St. Paul's Pendleton, Diocese of Upper
South Carolina. Call myself an "Anglican Atheist." Also call myself
an Anglo-Catholic. My hobbies are historical research, travel,
reading Victorian novels, and dog-walking.
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Charles Pearce (pearce at ksuvm.ksu.edu)
USA: Kansas (Manhattan)
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Clifford L. Pelletier (pelletier at apollo.commnet.edu)
USA: Connecticut (Hartford)
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Geoff Percival (geoffp at viewpoint.infocom.co.uk)
England: Bradford
Biography last updated Jan 12
I am an Anglican Priest, Vicar of ChristChurch, Windhill, an `Inner
City' parish of around 10,000 people on the outskirts of Bradford. I
have been a Priest for 15 years - prior to that I was a mechanical
and electrical Engineer.
I am not easily classified in terms of `Churchmanship' (a term which
I avoid if at all possible). I gave my life to Christ/became a
Christian in 1968. I am ecumenical, and am an Anglican because it is
a `broad church' and because it works rather than out of conviction!
I have a wide interest in Voluntary Sector activity, and am involved
in many Community and Voluntary Associations, mostly in Community
Development.
I advise Church and Voluntary Groups on Computers and Information
Technology, and am co-Chair of the Bradford Diocesan Computer Users
Group.
I have been involved in computing for very many years, and have
owned
a wide variety of different machines over the last 18 years. I have
been involved in Comms since the days when 300 baud was considered
fast, but have only very recently negotiated Internet access.
I am 47 years old, married (for twenty-one years, to Sylvia), with
two late teenage children, both of whom are about to go to
University.
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Betsy Perry (betsyp at char.vnet.net)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Biography last updated Nov 27
I'm 34, married, the mother of two small children, and living in
Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm a writer -- technical documentation
for money, fiction for pleasure.
I grew up in Richmond, Indiana, home of Earlham College, attending
Society of Friends (Quaker) meetings. I attended the Friends
equivalent of confirmation classes, but didn't formally join the
meeting. I no longer remember why, but suspect that I panicked at
the commitment.
As an adult, I realized that, without my own conscious choice, I
believed in Christianity. I started looking for a church. Although
I admire the Friends, Quakerism isn't for me; I find the discipline
necessary to concentrate during a silent Meeting eludes me; I need
a
liturgy to help focus my attention. Since I had attended Episcopal
services with my in-laws and enjoyed them, the Episcopal church
seemed a good fit. I am presently taking Confirmation classes at
St.
Clare's, a small mission church in Charlotte. [Thanks to all the
ANGLICAN members who suggested that a liberal Anglo-catholic parish
might be a good fit; I think I've found one, plainsong and all.]
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Roy Peters (petersr%hua1 at huachuca-emh11.army.mil)
USA: Arizona (Douglas)
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Pam Phillips (73717.2542 at compuserve.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
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Jane Pierce (sasjep at unx.sas.com)
USA: North Carolina (Smithfield)
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P.R. Pluth (ppluth at hawk.anselm.edu)
USA: New Hampshire (Manchester)
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Christian Poehlmann (chp at carson.u.washington.edu)
USA: Washington (Seattle)
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Melissa Poole (migpool at mizzou1.missouri.edu)
USA: Missouri (Columbia)
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Dorothy H. Porcher (porcherd at cofc.edu)
USA: South Carolina (Charleston)
Biography last updated Jan 13
My name is Dorothy Hamilton Porcher, i am from Charleston SC, where
i
was born and have lived for 23 years. I am currently a student at
the College of Charleston where i am in my fifth year, studying
Theatre. I have two parents, one step-parent, one brother and three
cats. I attend the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul at present.
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Chris Powell (powell at acc.roanoke.edu)
USA: Virginia (Salem)
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Mark Preece (mwp at world.std.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I am a 39 year old Anglo-Quaker; I worship regularly at the local
Anglican monastery and often at the Friends' Meeting around the
corner. My background is all Anglo-Catholic (when I did graduate
work
at Oxford, I was on staff at Pusey House -- surely the high point of
my A-C life), but I find the corporate silence of the Friends to be
very powerful. I also worry a bit about becoming too committed to
the
rituals of A-Cism in a purely aesthetic (or even superstitious) way,
but (I hasten to add, nervously eyeing escape routes) this is a
problem I sense in me, not necessarily in A-Cism. The Quakers led me
to a contemplative discipline, although I have found A-C and R-C
writers to be my preferred guides.
I was raised "high-church" Episcopal during a time (the 60s) and in
a
place (a relatively up-scale suburb of Chicago) where that phrase
seemed to be synonymous with "stuffy and lifeless", especially to a
boy who was 15 at the time of Woodstock.
My adult faith was born at college, when I took a New Testament
course from a fellow who had just arrived from studying with
Kasemann. I found the resonances between intellectual love of the
texts and a lifetime in the pews to be irresistible. Ended up a
Religion and Music major, did graduate work in NT.
I was accepted for ordination in the Diocese of Chicago, and
graduated from the Episcopal Divinity School in 1978. Decided not to
get ordained (also a long story).
I stayed pretty much out of churches for awhile. After three years
of
worship in a seminary community, I found it very difficult to settle
into a standard suburban Episcopal parish. (I'm afraid that may
sound
elitist and unpleasant, but daily Eucharist with people who are your
friends, and with whom you spend the rest of the time in a largely
theological setting, is a hard act to follow. I had not had the
benefit of a crisis of faith to settle the issue of my relationship
to the church, just a crisis of vocation.)
Nine years later, I discovered the Quakers. Then rediscovered the
monastery and, largely due to the lure of Barbara Harris' episcopal
presence, the Cathedral.
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Fr. John W. Price (jw.price at atomiccafe.com)
USA: Texas (Houston)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I am the Rev. John W. Price, Rector of Holy Comforter Church, Spring
TX. P.O. Box 752, Spring 77383, 713/353-9169, FAX 713/288-0534
I've been a priest since '65, originally in San Antonio, then 20
years in Austin at St. George's, and at this parish since '88. I've
been involved in Cursillo since '77, and have been the spiritual
director on 14+ weekends, am a graduate of the Pecos Benedictine
Monastery's School for Spiritual Directors, and teach it at at the
drop of a hat in a 13-session course. I taught a year-long
presentation of it in '93-'94 for the clergy of the Diocese of
W.Kansas. I'm an Army National Guard Chaplain (COL), the State
Chaplain of the Texas Guard. My wife and I have 3 great kids, 1
just
graduated from Sewanee, another is in Texas Tech, the third is in
Southwestern Univ. in Georgetown TX.
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Mark Price (m at uwyo.edu)
USA: Wyoming (Laramie)
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Judy Putnam (judyputnam at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Dan Pyles (danp at c.abac.peachnet.edu)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I work as the Assistant Director of Public Safety at Abraham Baldwin
College in Tifton, Georgia. We are a small (2700 students)
agricultural college with 1000 residents. My wife and I are
communicants at St. Anne's Church, Tifton.
Presently, I am serving as assistant acolyte master. Given the depth
of our acolyte program, that takes quite a bit of time.
I grew up all over, but mostly in Northeast Georgia near Athens. My
degree is from the Univ. of Georgia in history education and I am
certified to teach high school history but that has not happened.
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Kathryn Pyles (0006657532 at mcimail.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Liam R. E. Quin (lee at sq.com)
Canada: Ontario (Toronto)
Biography last updated Apr 16
I'm at SoftQuad Inc., in Toronto, Canada.
I'm English, and for what it's worth, my father is an Anglican
priest, now retired -- listed in Crockford's as the Rev. Eric Quin,
I
think.
I'm interested in making texts available at low cost (free where
possible!), particularly liturgical ones, and preferably encoded in
SGML.
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Eric Rabe (ericrabe at well.sf.ca.us)
USA: California (San Francisco)
Biography last updated Jan 10
The Episcopal church in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, is not much bigger
today than it was when I was born in 1946. Our family had just
moved
to town, and Mom agreed to join Dad's church since her Lutherans
were
a much larger group than the eighty or so Episcopalians. Through my
childhood, we were active members of St. Andrew's, and I was a
regular Sunday schooler and acolyte.
Like many in the 60s, when I headed off for college, the church got
left behind, and it was not until the first of my three children was
born that I began to get interested again. By this time, 1976, my
wife, daughter and I lived in another small central Pennsylvania
town, Holidaysburg, where the Episcopal church was just as much in
need of members as the one in Clearfield. We joined and were
active.
I became a vestryman and warden. I was involved, but not on the
spiritual level I would later discover.
It was about 10 years ago, after the birth of my third child and
second daughter, that I began to find those deeper levels of
Christianity I'd been vaguely aware of but certainly not in close
touch with. Now we were members of the Church of the Redeemer in
the
Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr. My career was in flux, my
marriage
was breaking up and my spiritual life was not strong enough to pull
me through.
Not in a road to Damascus flash but very defiantly nonetheless, I
discovered the power of true faith in Christ and reliance on God's
grace. Through the four year Education for Ministry program, I
deepened my understanding of scripture, theology and my own belief.
The marriage did not survive, but my career took an unexpected turn.
After 15 years as a broadcast journalist, I now head Bell Atlantic's
public relations group. I remain active in church as a member of
Redeemer's vestry, a Lay Eucharistic Minister and chalicist. But it
is the enriched spirituality rather than these activities that
defines my Episcopalianism and Christianity today.
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Albert M. Ranni (alb2671059 at aol.com)
USA: New York (Buffalo)
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Joan Rasch (rasch at calvin.bwh.harvard.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Apr 20
- Joan Rasch, 3/9/51; unemployed computer support/dba/p-a.
- Household in 4.5 rooms in Somerville, MA: self (heavy-duty Anglo-
Catholic); spouse Jim (actor, self-described 'lapsed Congrega-
tionalist'); cat Finzi (see C Smart on feline spirituality)
- Member Church of St John the Evangelist, Boston: Treasurer,
Acolyte/'sub-deacon' and liturgical planner; lay Eucharistic
Minis-
ter; formerly choir member; member Finance Committee, Diocese of
Massachusetts
- St John's, founded by the Society of St John the Evangelist (the
'Cowley Fathers') and deeply rooted in Anglo-Catholic tradition,
offers a rich worship centered around the Eucharist, with
extensive
congregational participation. The parish's ministry focuses on
inclusiveness and hospitality. Attention is paid to elders and
homeless in the Beacon Hill area through offering meals and other
services. The parish tends to attract mature people exploring
their
spirituality, with a special welcome offered to lesbian and gay
people.
The real Bio - the journey
[Quotes are from _A LOOK AT THE CELTIC CHRISTIAN TRADITION_ by
Sister
Cintra Pemberton OSH from _saint_helena_, vol. 14, no. 1, March
1993]
<begin quote>
Celtic spirituality had another characteristic, summed up in the
Welsh word HIRAETH, which can only be loosely translated as
"yearn-
ing" or "longing". Celtic Christians longed for all that led to
God, longed for knowledge of God, longed for intimacy with God.
They "confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the
earth. . .seeking a homeland" (Hebrews 15:14-15).
<end quote>
This passage evokes for me my state of mind in the summer of 1980.
Back a decade previously, during my college years, I had acting on
the "yearning" by hanging out first with the campus Newman group,
then singing in the choir of an Episcopal church. But I couldn't
trust this sense of being drawn, so I let it go after graduating and
getting married.
I'm sure this doubt about the authenticity of my feelings came in
part from my teen-aged experience of feeling like an odd-ball, one
who just didn't fit in or belong, even being the object of
unprovoked
animosity because I was perceived as different.
Sometime in the 70's I became aware of what was then called 'Gay
Liberation'. Interestingly enough, it was less through my having
been 'political' during college and more from becoming very
interested in the music of Benjamin Britten. But my interest in his
music and life made me pay attention to the issues that gay
activists
were raising.
All of this came together to give me a metaphor for my own life.
Even though sexuality didn't happen to be an issue for me, I
nonetheless started hearing stories which strongly resonated with my
own.
So in 1980, with my husband away for 12 weeks at a summer theatre
job, I was in particular need of support. I came to St John the
Evangelist. I wasn't sure what I could trust about all this 'God
stuff', but I could listen to other people talking about it both
cogently and passionately. And more to the point, people not only
talked about a God who accepted those rejected by others, but they
actually did it themselves - I was welcomed without being expected
to
justify my presence.
Even if I couldn't explain what it was I wanted from church, I could
start doing it, through participation in the choir and through being
a part of the community's life together.
What impressed me even more is that people not only talked about
theology and their faith, but lived it. I first noticed this in the
commitment to real participatory worship in the liturgy. Even
though
the ritual was complex and often mysterious, people were encouraged,
expected and trained to take part fully - no 'audience' here!
It wasn't particularly surprising to discover that one result of
people's living out their faith was a desire to serve homeless
people
who would come to our door. What I hadn't expected was that the
parish was coming to be something of a haven for lesbian and gay
people as well. As time has gone one, this openness has become a
major part of our collective self-identity for straight and gay
alike.
<begin quote>
Individual experiences of God were highly respected. Always the
people were urged and encouraged to develop their own relationship
with God....God's presence was at all times and in all places, in
all actions and all events.
<end quote>
I had found a spiritual home and was baptized at St John's on the
feast of All Saints in 1981.
I don't recall in our parish history someone making a decision to be
'politically correct'. Instead we were given a gift - the grace to
be a particular kind of community which, though imperfect and having
conflicts, has begun to be a safe place for people not always
welcomed in some other places, and therefor safe for everyone - a
visible expres- sion of the love of God and hope for God's Reign.
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Robert Rea (rear at delphi.com)
USA: New Jersey (Newark)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I am an Episcopal priest. I work as caseworker at the St Barnabas
AIDS Resource Center in Newark NJ, a church sponsored agency. We
have
a meals on wheels program, support group, mediation groups and
massages for PLWAs. I try to do basic social work sorts of things. I
live in Jersey City. I am just beginning to look for parish work. I
think that is my basic vocation, pasotoral work and spiritual
direction. I am a former member of a religious order, recently
released.
My interests are in liberation theology and in Scripture, and in the
relationship between spirituality and sexuality.
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James Reicker (ab638 at freenet.carleton.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Ottawa)
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Brian Reid (reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us)
USA: California (San Jose)
Biography last updated Jan 10
I was born in 1949. I am a member of Christ Church in Los Altos,
California. I'm a Ph.D. computer scientist whose day job is research
in computer network systems (I'm the director of a small industrial
research laboratory.) My career has been devoted to the use of
technology to help communication; this means e-mail and laser
printers and computer networks and telephone gizmos and the like. My
house is on the Internet. I am an accomplished portrait
photographer,
a pretty good cook, a competent bicycle mechanic, and 40 pounds
overweight.
I have used Internet e-mail for 20 years and I understand it
completely. If you have a question about e-mail or a problem with
it,
I can almost certainly help you. I maintain the ANGLICAN roster and
register of biographies (the thing that you are now reading).
My mother is a Congregationalist and my father is an atheist; as
children we briefly went to a Presbyterian church, but my father
felt
(and still feels) that organized religion promotes and encourages
violence and warfare, and we didn't attend church again as children.
My father designs atomic weapons for a living, but he has no
intention of seeing them ever being used.
Thus I was baptized and confirmed at age 25 at Church of the
Redeemer
in Pittsburgh, PA. When I joined ANGLICAN I had no idea what an
Anglo-Catholic was, but I now know that I am one.
I see my place in the church to be working with children, though
maybe when all of my children grow up I might try something else. I
doubt it. I love to teach, and spent 10 years as a college professor
but quit because I couldn't take the politics. I've taught Sunday
school for many years (usually one of the younger grades) and never
once have I gotten into a turf war with one of the other teachers. I
help with the children's choir, I direct and run various children's
pageants at the church, and I pride myself on knowing the name of
every child in the parish who has been to church more than once or
twice. (I can't even come close do doing this for the adults.)
I wish I had the educational background and the time to read and
understand important theological works like Veritatis Spendor, but I
know that I can serve God equally well by being a good parent, and
whenever I'm faced with the choice, I choose to spend time helping a
second-grader with a class report on endangered species instead of
reading an encyclical. I have four children, two of whom come from a
remarriage.
On the ANGLICAN list I try to hold to the position of being just a
parishioner. This means that I am not clergy, not a chalice bearer,
not a religious scholar, not educated in theology, and not given to
being a philosopher. With respect to the church, I'm no different
from a goatherd or a plumber or a day laborer; all of my fancy
technical education doesn't count for a thing in the eyes of God. As
such, I hide behind a rock during most theological arguments and
pray
for both sides. I haven't had much luck at getting anybody on the
list to react to anything that I've posted to it; I think this is
the
same reaction that a plumber would get if he came to my office and
tried to talk about computers.
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K Reiss (rs1229 at aol.com)
USA: Connecticut (Hartford)
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Stephen Reksten (wa132 at utmartn.bitnet)
USA: Tennessee (Martin)
No biography on file
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Roger Rhodes (rhodes at bible.acu.edu)
USA: Texas (Abilene)
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Thomas Nelson Rightmyer (trightmy at acpub.duke.edu)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
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John Robertson (jrobertson at lawnet-po.law.uiowa.edu)
USA: Iowa (Iowa City)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am an attorney, and a clergy spouse (married to the Rev. Julia
Easley). As of this writing I conduct research and writing at the
University of Iowa College of Law, and maintain a small private
practice.
Julia is the university Episcopal Chaplain, and I am fairly involved
in that work with her. My hope, someday, is to develop an
alternatively funded social justice law practice that is somehow
affiliated with the church.
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Dennis Roberts (prdcr at umsvm.bitnet)
USA: Mississippi (Oxford)
Biography last updated Apr 19
DOB 7 July 69, originally from Jackson, Miss. graduated St. Andrew's
Episcopal School in 1987.
Went to the University of Glasgow in Scotland for a year where the
only really notable event was being confirmed into Anglican
communion. Returned to U.S., transferred to the University of
Mississippi (Ole Miss) (God, what a transfer!) where for two years
was president of Episcopal Students Association. Was a philosophy
major while at UM. Thought for years that I had *the call* but have
put that to the side. Lots of reasons for that.
Am presently in the process of moving to Memphis, Tenn. Have one dog
named J.D. (yes, after the whiskey) who really IS the world's
greatest dog. Oh, and the smartest dog. Current hobbies include
wondering why I can't ever learn to play golf better than I do,
wondering how anybody could ever like basketball when God has
already
given us baseball, and trying to figure out which of these two is
larger: the national debt or my student loans.
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Paul Roberts (paul.roberts at bristol.ac.uk)
England: Bristol
Biography last updated Apr 20
Revd Dr Paul Roberts, Tutor in Worship and Doctrine, Trinity
College,
Bristol, England. My interests are Liturgy and Contemporary Culture,
Daily Office, Postmodernism/Postmodernity, Alternative worship
experiments (going on mainly in UK), Theology of Mission/Missiology,
Evangelism/Evangelization and Liturgy, and Contemporary music from
popular to avant-garde.
Address: Trinity College, Stoke Hill Bristol BS9 1JP UK; telephone
44-272-682803, Fax 44-272-687470
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Janis E. Roihl (jer1234567 at aol.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Linda Roise (roise at seattleu.edu)
USA: Washington (Seattle)
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Chuck Rollhauser (rollhaus at oasys.dt.navy.mil)
USA: Washington DC/Maryland
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am a Mechanical Engineer, working for the U.S. Navy testing and
developing fire protection equipment protection and personnel
protection equipment. I'm married and we have four children,
between
23 and 14 years old.
I was raised Roman Catholic. My parents were not serious about
religion and by time I was on my own I had developed the idea that
the longer I stayed away from organized religion, the closer I would
be to God. (This was the 60's.) I'd read the Bible and lots of
philosophical books, but would stay away from those church places.
My wife is Episcopalian, and I attended church with her on Christmas
and Easter (when I had to.) About 8-9 years ago, a strange thing
happened. I felt the need for a more active religious life. I
started going to church with my wife, and eventually was received
into the Episcopal Church.
Suddenly, my life had changed. I found that there were others who
REALLY cared about God and His message to us. I got more and more
involved. I went to Cursillo last year (MD48). WOW! There's more to
this religion stuff than I ever thought. God's love is everywhere!
What am I doing now? A Member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Fr
Fred Ramsay); I counsel the Boy and Girl Scouts for the God and
Country award; I'm Junior Warden; recently I helped start a men's
study group; and I signed up with the Bible Study Fellowship. And
I'm doing the funny stuff the Cursillo community is famous for.
I'm among the older part of the group, at 49. I prefer to lurk
rather
than post. I don't pretend to know anymore more about anything than
the rest of the group, but maybe I can occasionally add a different
perspective to the discussions.
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Michael Roman (mrr1 at postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu)
USA: New York (Ithaca)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Born 1/1/54, baptized RC within a month, but went to the Trinity
Memorial Episcopal in Binghamton NY with my mother (Dad listened to
the sermons of Frs. Driver and Putter). I didn't drop out of church
in high school (and I even joined the choir) because I had a crush
on
one of the altos ;-) I didn't go to church much in college or grad
school (sound familiar?), but one evening in summer 1982, I was up a
tree on a golf course; a friend of mine told me about her faith.
(Wow. Full circle - I just realized it now) I felt an emptiness
inside that signalled to me that it was time to find a church. I
went
to St John's Ithaca thinking I would be shopping for a church, but
I've stayed there ever since; I never looked at another one. I'm
sure
that that is where God wants me to be (I've even been tested on
this).
I'm in the choir (a tenor), bell choir (Bach, Byrd, Victoria and
Tallis rule!), I'm a lay eucharistic minister (LEM), and LEM to the
ill and infirm, and I'm currently on the vestry (every now and then
an innocent person gets elected to the vestry ;-))
Tastes (other than musical): Rite II (mild preference),
Ecclesiastes,
the dry bones passage from Ezekiel, the Gospel of John, Lenten and
Advent music, I'm probably more high church than low...
Other stats: married since 9/12/92 (the best day of my life - I've
never had more fun than I had that entire day), no children (yet),
6'4" 205lb. I think that about covers it.
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Laura Rose (lsrose at ecuvm1.bitnet)
USA: North Carolina (Greenville)
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Rev. Jan Charles Rudinoff (jrudinoff at igc.apc.org)
USA: California (San Francisco)
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David Ryniker (ryniker at unixg.ubc.ca)
Canada: British Columbia (Vancouver)
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Paul Rynne (eeipre at eeiatus01.ericsson.se)
Ireland: Athlone
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Luca Sansonetti
(sansonetti at vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.d400.de)
Germany: Regensburg
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Augie Schau (ajscha at maple.monsanto.com)
USA: Missouri (St. Louis)
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Marykate Schroeder (mary.k.schroeder at dartmouth.edu)
USA: New Hampshire (Hanover)
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Lloyd Schultz (lloyd.schultz at mixcom.mixcom.com)
USA: Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
No biography on file
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Bruce Schuman (origin at coyote.rain.org)
USA: California (Santa Barbara)
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John Seboldt (jseboldt at pnet51.orb.mn.org)
USA: Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
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Rev. Donald D. Seils (donoo at aol.com)
USA: Colorado (Denver)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I am the Rev. Donald Seils, an Episcopal priest from the Diocese of
Colorado. I have particular interests in Liturgy, music and youth
ministry. Beside serving as Vicar of two missions, I serve as Chair
of the Commission on Youth Ministry for the Diocese and our
representative to Province VI Youth Network. I grew up in the Church
in the Diocese of Milwaukee (Biretta Belt!!) and then migrated to
the
Diocese of Texas (NOT Biretta Belt!!) I attended Virginia
Theological
Seminary (EXTREMELY NOT Biretta Belt!!)
I have served in the Diocese of Texas, Western Kansas, West Texas,
Kansas and Colorado.
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David Selzer (selze001 at maroon.tc.umn.edu)
USA: Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Biography last updated Jan 15
I am an Episcopal priest of the Diocese of Minnesota. I am the
Episcopal Chaplain at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
where
I have been for the last ten years. I am interested in
communicating
with others about campus ministry and similar concerns. Shalom,
David
The Rev. David Selzer
University Episcopal Center
317 17th Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-331-3552
612-627-9450 (fax)
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Fr Deacon Seraphim (th7158 at goose.sbc.com)
USA: Missouri (House Springs)
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David Shepherd (des at inmos.co.uk)
England: Bristol
Biography last updated Jan 10
Briefly, I was brought up in a basically Christian environment in a
small village in Westmorland (north England) where for my family
attending and helping out at Church was normal. While at school and
university I was influenced by the work of Scripture Union which
gave
me a good grounding in "evangelical" Christianity (in case it means
anything to anyone, it was the "Iwerne Minster" mob from SU!).
When I moved to Bristol after university I started to attend
Pip'n'Jay Church (SS Philip and Jacob if you wish to be official
about it) mainly on the basis that it seemed very different to the
Church that I attended in Oxford (St Ebbe's) as it was influenced by
the "charismatic" movement. I think I thought that going there for a
bit would do be good and then I'd find somewhere closer to what I
was
used to! However, I've stayed there now for over 8 years and am on
so
many rotas etc that I'm probably trapped for ever! Life for me in
Pip`n`Jay is currently quite "interesting" as I'm one of the small
minority in the Church not strongly opposed to ordination of women
... however, the encouraging thing is that we all see this as being
a side issue to what the Church is really meant to be doing and we
all get on with it without any rifts/schisms etc.
Currently I'm on Bristol Diocesan Synod (and hence by the CofE rules
of downwards closure on Deanery Synod and PCC), and I'm also
currently working towards becoming a Lay Reader - I'm nearing the
end
of the first two years of the course and have been approved by the
PCC to apply for the final year of actual Reader's training.
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Randall Short (randal1671 at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Stephen Shott (sa_shott at postoffice.utas.edu.au)
Australia: Tasmania (Hobart)
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William Sier (sherlock at ksuvm.bitnet)
USA: Kansas (Manhattan)
Biography last updated Jan 12
I was born to a first generation Sicilian Catholic mother and a
"lackadasical-at-best-former-Lutheran-converted-to-Catholicism-
because-that-was-the-way-it-was-done-then" father. So, naturally, I
went to Catholic Schools for twelve years. I was the fourth of five
boys, and I'm still trying to figure out what that placement means
in
the birth-order school of thought. To me, it meant "quasi-rebel"--
not quite a black sheep, more of a dusky grey. I was an altar boy,
right at the end of the Latin rite (thankfully!). I still took Latin
in high school, and have not regretted it a bit. Just don't ask me
to
translate real fast. However, much to my mother's chagrin, I
refused
to join any of the Catholic Youth organizations, because even at an
early age, I was having my doubts.
First came the idea that the pope was infallible--just can't buy
that. Then came the Church History class we had to take from an
Italian Presbyterian--filled me with a great deal of cynicism , but
gave me my first view of "the-church-no-one-could-spell". Finally,
the very notion that men who are prevented from marrying can TEACH a
class in MARRIAGE to a group of high school seniors!
But the ultimate blow came when Mary and I got married. She was a
Presbyterian, and wanted to get married in her home church. Didn't
bother me-- I'd'a just as soon run down to the courthouse and done
it
the quick way. (I have come since to learn that the groom is merely
the bride's date at a wedding-- it's the bride's show!) However, I
went to talk to some young priest at MY home parish, and he assured
me all it took was a letter from the Bishop, and he would see to it.
So married we got, and Mary began taking lessons in Catholicism. She
was () this close to baptism, when the priest at the Army chapel we
were attending said we would have to be remarried, because there was
no priest present at our wedding. Here endeth the association with
Rome.
We went without for about two years. But when Mary got pregnant, we
wanted our kids raised in a church. So after Andy was born, we went
to the nearest chapel to us on Ft. Sam Houston, where a Methodist
chaplain recommended the Episcopal church as a fair compromise
between out respective religions.
So off we went to St. David's in Terrell Hills, a bedroom community
of San Antonio, and ALSO the nearest Episcopal church. We felt at
home from the very start. So both boys were baptized, I was
accepted,
Mary was confirmed, and we were just getting started with really
getting into the church, when the Army had other plans.
We went to Berlin for three years, where we had the good fortune to
be a congregation so small, if you didn't do it, it didn't get done.
We were also lucky in being in the Episcopal church when Charlie
Burgreen was Bishop of the Armed Forces. If I ever meet anyone again
as special as Bishop Charlie, I will consider myself very lucky,
indeed. It was also interesting, because there was no Episcopal
chaplain, so we had British Forces chaplains come down voluntarily
to
do our Eucharist. We had one from the Church of Scotland, one from
the Church of Wales, and one from the Church of England while we
were
there. It was very interesting.
Coming from Berlin to Kansas was quite a shock. We came to St.
Paul's
in Manhattan right at the very end of a very divisive feud involving
a former rector, but we toughed it out.
Now, I'm out of the Army (but not retired), working at Farrell
Library at Kansas State University. I just finished (WHEW!) my
three-year tour of duty on the Vestry (with the scars to show for
it!), and last year attended my first Cursillo. Mary is on Altar
Guild I also sing in the choir (I am 1/3 of the tenor section, on a
good Sunday), and am a Lector.
We both have taught Sunday school, or co-chaired Summer Bible
School.
Both boys are active in the church: Andy, 14, decided acolyting
wasn't "cool", but has remained active in the Episcopal Youth.
Matthew will be 13 sooner than we like to admit. He has also
abandoned acolyting, but attends Jr. High Sunday School when he's
awake.
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David T. Simmons (pelgian at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Gregory Singleton (ugsingle at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
Biography last updated Jan 12
I am a new member of the Anglican Network, and a Lutheran
fellow-traveler. By background is Southern Baptist, but I waslured
away from that world at the age of 19 by an Anglo-Catholic Solemn
High Mass. I am at home in almost any setting in which liturgy is
the preferred response to our spiritual dimension, in which our
spiritual dimension is given precedence over our other dimensions,
and in which my own tendency toward grandiosity is deflated with
good
humor and Christian affection. I presently find that community as a
member of an ELCA congregation, but have sojourned in various
Anglican quarters from time to time.
My vocation is Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois
University, where I teach American Social and Intellectual History.
Most of my publications have dealt with the ironic intersections of
religion and American public life. I fancy myself a novelist, and
have a readership of four people for the five manuscripts I've not
yet had the courage to send to an agent or publisher. One of the
wanna-be novels is about life in an American Anglican Parish. If
anyone has a need to criticize such a piece of work, I could
probably
use it.
My significant other is a former RC nun. We are both 53 and amazed
to have made it to this age. Between us, we have three cats who
keep
us sane and amused.
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Ed Sisson (sasisson at umsvm.bitnet)
USA: Mississippi (Oxford)
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Richard Smiraglia (smiraglia at liuvax.bitnet)
USA: New York (New York City)
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Catherine Arnott Smith (casmith at casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
USA: Illinois (Evanston)
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Charles Smith (cts at dragon.com)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
Biography last updated Apr 3 1993
Founder and owner of the list.
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Cindy Smith (cms at dragon.com)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
Biography last updated Apr 3 1993
Founder and owner of the list.
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Diana Smith (dianas at cap.gwu.edu)
USA: Washington DC
Biography last updated Jan 10
I was raised "cradle" Episcopalian (All Saints, Austin, TX) -- left
"organized religion" when I went away to college (all of 3 blocks to
the Univ. of TX!) -- but not totally -- came to Wash DC in 1974 for
graduate school (MLS); "discovered" the yet-unfinished Washington
Cathedral; although "unchurched" would stray into that neo-Gothic
structure for solace and peace. I used the change to the "new"
prayer
book as one of my many excuses not to return to the Episcopal fold.
Also was totally turned off about "organized relgion" (ie,
parishes),
so folded my arms and stayed away.
About 8 years ago, I went to a dinner party where both my
friend/hostess and a guest (an Anglican priest) attended St. Alban's
(almost literally "in the shadow" of the Cathedral). I was so
impressed with their discussion that I went the very next day -- for
a long time telling both of them that I wanted _nothing_ to do
"officially" with the parish--that I would help out but not "get
involved". Last May, the good parishioners elected me as a Diocesan
delegate. I am still wondering what happened; how did a stronglu
professed "non-joiner" get herself into such a position? All I can
say is that, yes, God does work miracles.
St. Alban's is my "family" -- it is an accepting, large, "broad"
parish, which allows the freedom of someone who questions to be
nurtured and to grow. I am still very guarded about "organized
religion" -- almost an oxymoron when applied to Anglicans,
especially
validated from my "lurking" experience on this list.
I came "back into the fold" still very unhappy about the "new" BCP
--
but have now come to appreciate Rite II -- esp. Euch Prayer B. I
still, however, pull out my Baptismal copy of the 1928 BCP from time
to time. but have learned to be very wary of nostalgia and sentiment
masquerading as "dogma" (or what passes for same in the
Anglican/Episcopal Communion).
I believe very strongly in inclusive Christianity -- that as long as
people walk in love and love Jesus Christ and accept Him as their
Savior then "all shall be well" (as Julian so marvelously phrases
it). Beyond that, who knows. I also believe that Jesus was so
incredibly radical -- not only for His time but for all time -- that
to even _comprehend_ following Him to the degree that He demands is
so humbling as to be truely breathtaking. And almost impossible
(speaking only for myself).
Enough. In "real" life, I am a librarian, toiling away valiantly in
US government service. My great "secular" love is Great Britain --
not the usual American "let's pretend we're landed gentry"
Anglophiles, but a deep spirtual love of Britain -- to walk along
the
country paths, to sit in churchyards, or in the ancient churches
themselves, rejuvenates my spirit (helped sometimes by the
contemplation from a pub garden!). In fact, I wonder how many other
Episcopalians/Anglicans feel the same -- I know several here in Wash
DC who have become Episcopalians in part because they love England!!
Anyone care to comment on this -- I think it's an interesting clue
to
the nature of Anglicans.
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Morag Smith (mksmith at students.wisc.edu)
USA: Wisconsin (Madison)
Biography last updated Apr 20
Geographically speaking I started life in Texas, was mostly raised
in
Ohio, was in South Carolina during my high school years, returned to
Ohio for college (Ohio University), and moved to Madison, Wisconsin
for grad school almost two years ago.
'Cradle Episcopalian' applies to me as Dad especially has been an
active member of the Church since he was in college. Until college
I
was very active - acolyte, choir, youth group, etc. but my ties with
church loosened significantly as college took up more of my time and
there wasn't the routine of going to church every week coupled with
a
priest I didn't really care for at the local parish. Here in
Madison
I've been slowly rediscovering church as a community - St. Francis
House is the student Episcopal center and is about as low church as
it can possibly be (the supplimental BCP is the primary source for
our services) which isn't quite to my taste, but is closer to being
a
family than any other church I have attended.
Anyway, my faith isn't as clear as it was when I was younger - as a
physics grad student it's hard balance the objectivity required in
the lab every day with the subjectivity that is faith. But I
suppose
it wouldn't be as interesting if I knew the answers.
Nuclear Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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David J. Sparks (mainerii at aol.com)
Location unknown
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John Spivey (jspivey at aol.com)
Location unknown
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Stefan Stackhouse (stackhss at wccc.westmoreland.cc.pa.us)
USA: Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)
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Chris Stamper (clstampe at mailbox.syr.edu)
USA: New York (Syracuse)
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Ian Stewartson (istewart at datlog.co.uk)
England: London
Biography last updated Apr 20
Data Logic Ltd, CI Tower, St Georges Square,
High Street, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4HH, UK.
Phone: +44 81 715 9696; Fax: +44 81 715 1771, Telex: 888103
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Brian Stewart (wbs at vax.ox.ac.uk)
England: Oxford
Biography last updated Apr 20
Born 31 Jan 42, Forfar Scotland. Baptized 22 Feb 42, Brechin
Cathedral (the sprinkling bit). Conf late 1962, St Leonard's, Perth
(the right hand of fellowship bit). conf^2 early 1970 St John's
Urbana Ill (the face-slapping bit).
Educated: Perth Academy, St Andrews University, Magdalen Coll
Oxford,
Exeter Coll Oxford.
Married July 72 Hampstead Town Hall. 1 daughter born Aug 74, now
at
university. 1 son born Apr 76, now in last year at school.
Profession: mathematician (algebra, groups, etc). Employment:
1968--now Fellow in Pure Maths, Exeter Coll Oxford. 1970--now Univ
Lecturer in Maths, Oxford University (and at various times all the
usual college jobs including, 1988--now, Finance & Estates Bursar)
Interests: visiting gardens, cliff and beach walking, flying kites,
mild anti-clericalism, anglican byways.
Current ecclesiastical affiliation: St Mary Magdalen Oxford, `the
highest church in england'
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Colin Stewart (colinst at world.std.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Claude Stone (cgstone at bix.com)
Location unknown
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John Stopa (jstopa at ccs.carleton.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Ottawa)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I was born and raised here in Ottawa, ON Canada. I was raised in
the
Roman Catholic Church and had always found comfort and meaning in my
religious and spiritual activity. As I grew into adulthood, it
became apparent to me that my Church was no longer the place to
be...
For a number of reasons, it became obvious to me that Catholicism
and
I could not agree on a number of issues which I consider crucial.
So
I left the Rc Church, though my need for things religious and
spiritual did not subside. I experimented with neo-paganism and new
age (as it seems did a few others here on ANGLICAN), and though I
find the experience to be credible, it became more and more obvious
that this was not the place for me. What *was* becoming obvious was
the fact that I was being drawn home to Christianity, though not to
its former manifestation in my life. Over a long period of
discernment as I stood between the New-age and Christianity, the
Anglican Church presented itself as the place to be. Each time, I
rejected the idea, thought it hogwash, but a much louder message
came
back pointing me in this direction... so I looked more and more
into
the Anglican Church and see that indeed it is the place to be.
I have a B.A. and a M.A. in Religion from Carleton University, and
have been admitted into the B.Th program at St. Paul University (a
local RC theological institute which offers a program through the
Anglican Diocese of Ottawa for theological training). I hope one
day
to be a priest in my new Church.
I am married and have one child. As for work, my main income has
been from doing odd contract term-type positions. I enjoy films,
reading and writing (most stuff like plays and screenplays),
gardening (Lord, let Spring actually arrive!), cooking and
photography.
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Stephen Storen (stephen14110 at delphi.com)
Location unknown
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Donald Stuart (dstuart at lwcnet.lwc.edu)
USA: Virginia (Farmville)
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Denise Stuempfle (denise at class.org)
USA: California (San Jose)
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Sylvia Sutherland (ssutherland at trentu.ca)
Canada: Ontario (Peterborough)
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Patrick Sweeney (psweeney at lehman.com)
USA: New York (New York City)
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Jim Sweeton (jim.sweeton at um.cc.umich.edu)
USA: Michigan (Ann Arbor)
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Trudy Sykes (trudys at msu.edu)
USA: Michigan (Lansing)
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Sue Szostak (sszostak at dscc.cc.tn.us)
USA: Tennessee (Dyersburg)
Biography last updated Apr 20
1. I grew up Southern Baptist and am the granddaughter of a
Southern
Baptist minister. I became disenchanted with all of the "you
can't's" and so began my quest for the denomination that would meet
my needs and where I might be able to offer my talents.
2. I was confirmed an Episcopalian in 1980 at St. Mary's in
Dyersburg, TN. I was heavily influenced by such authors as C. S.
Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Thomas Howard, Charles Williams, and G. K.
Chesterton in my understanding of a _thinking_ and believing
Christianity. Since my confirmation, I have taught Church School,
served on the Vestry (x2), ECW, and various other committees. I am
Senior Warden this year.
3. I married my husband, Joe, in 1981. Joe was a non-practicing
R.C. He was received in the Episcopal Church in 1992.
4. We have three children, 1 son (10 yrs.) and 2 daughters (8
yrs.).
(Yes, they are twins.) If anyone wants to know about time and
raising three children 22 months apart, I quite honestly don't have
much memory of those early years. It's still very busy, but not
quite in the same way.
5. Professionally, I'm the Dean of the Learning Resources Center at
Dyersburg State Community College (read that head librarian) in
Tennessee. I have been in this position for fifteen years with five
different titles. But as you well know, it's more than books. It's
AV, satellite down-link, video production, computers, etc. I'm one
of those people who truly loves her profession and the things she
does.
6. By the way, I'm an ESTJ.
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Gail R. Taylor (grt at po.cwru.edu)
USA: Ohio (Cleveland)
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Michael Taylor (mptaylor at rex.mnsmc.edu)
USA: Minnesota (Winona)
Biography last updated Apr 19
I currently attend St. Mary's College in Minnesota, and I reside in
LaGrange, Illinois on breaks. While in Winona, I attend St. Paul's
Episcopal (Father Tom Winkler) and when in LaGrange I attend
Emmanuel
Episcopal (Father David Weaver IV), while my parents attend St.
Paul's in Riverside, IL (Father Fraser?), which is two suburbs over.
I have lived all over the country (GA, AL, OK, IL, MN, TN, Winnipeg,
Canada) and find that it has helped me learn to accept almost
anything openly, and I find it hard to accept any argument for
prejudice, exclusion, or closed mindedness.
My biggest passions are the death penalty, the environment, racism,
the philosophy of religion, tennis, and joining every club and
activity that is possible for one human being. I suppose my credo
is
involvement, although you wouldn't know it by my participation on
this list would you because lately I have no- mailed it for a while
due to breaks and the lack of patience to sort through volume.
I was an active member of Happening in Chicago and will always
remember those retreats as being the best time of my life
spiritually
and socially. Right now I'm having a hard time dealing with the
idea
of a God, but I suppose that's a natural tendency for college kids
like myself. It's tough having to deal with that fact sometimes and
occasionally I feel burned out from questioning. The scariest thing
for a human being to experience is the idea that the world is random
and chaotic in everyday life and I'm starting to believe that as we
sort logically and scientifically through the randomness, God is
becoming less believable. Probably not true, but unless I sort
through it all myself and wade through the problems head-on, this
will never get solved properly.
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Lynn Teague (lteague at gas.uug.arizona.edu)
USA: Arizona (Tucson)
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Gray Temple, Jr. (grayt1 at aol.com)
USA: Georgia (Atlanta)
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Jim Thyer (jrt at ballarat.edu.au)
Australia: Victoria (Ballarat)
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Peter Trei (ptrei at bistromath.mitre.org)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Columban Trojan (columban at eagle.ibc.edu)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
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Tom True (tdtrue at pucc.bitnet)
USA: New Jersey (Princeton)
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David R. Tucker (drt at world.std.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
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Adrian Turner (aturner at acs.bu.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Aug 23 1993
I was brought up in the CofE, and have seen no reason to change my
affiliation to date. I live in Burlington, MA. attend St. Marks
Episcopal church, where I am Junior Warden. Am LEM A & B. Married, 2
children, 4 siamese cats. I enjoy lurking in the background, but
have
a few grenades close at hand.
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NAME UNKNOWN (pci at cup.portal.com)
Location unknown
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Susan Urbach (surbach at aix1.ucok.edu)
USA: Oklahoma (Edmond)
Biography last updated Jan 10
My name is Susan Urbach and I live in Oklahoma City. I'm Director of
the Small Business Development Center for one of the local
universities. I'm a single person, and share my old house I'm
rennovating with my cats. I am new to the Episcopal Church, just
having past my first year anniversary. I am also a trained
musician,
and among other musical activities had spent 16 years as a church
choir director/cantor in several churches, but spent most of my time
at an Air Force Base Chapel with both Protestant (ranging from ends
of the spectrum) and Catholic parishes, and then ultimately in a
local Catholic parish. As a result, I have an extremely varied
experience, with both an appreciation for other's styles as well as
a
recognition of my own preferences. After experiencing severe
burnout, I decided it was time to reorganize on a spiritual as well
as musical basis. Thus my journey to the Episcopal Church, looking
for church home for the first time as an adult, that was not also
combined with work.
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David Cruz-Uribe (conan at math.berkeley.edu)
USA: California (San Francisco)
Biography last updated Apr 3 1993
David is a Roman Catholic and a lay Franciscan.
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Chris van Es (cvanes at uk.oracle.com)
England: Surrey
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Valerie Van Osdel (vanosdel at u.washington.edu)
USA: Washington (Seattle)
Biography last updated Apr 16
Religiously speaking, I was brought up a "generic" Protestant. My
father was career Army and my mid-western parents were
Presbyterian/Congregationalist. I was always fascinated by various
faiths and spent time attending a variety of denominations as well
an
occasional Roman Catholic or Orthodox mass, Jewish shul and even a
bat
mitzvah of a friend's sister when I was in junior high.
In college I majored in art and became very interested in eastern
religions. One of the limitations I had experienced as a Protestant
was the focus on the intellect at the expense of the imagination and
mystery, to say nothing of grace. I'm sure my family's involvement
with medicine and computers, rather than anything artistic was part
of
it; even Grandma was a Latin and math teacher.
So, after a sojourn with Buddhism, and finding there really wasn't
much place for a caucasian female there, I tried going to the
Episcopal Church with my sister-in-law. I had a alot of trouble
with
the "ritual", but having spent a quarter studying in France, and
having a strong art history background, there was a great draw to
the
history and the continuity. My family felt it was "one step from
Rome", but that is where things "worked" for me. I was confirmed
Easter Eve 1978 at St. Mark's Cathedral, here in Seattle. I really
feel I have "come home" in joining the Anglican tradition.
I spent 15 years at St. Mark's, involved in most every aspect of the
parish and cathedral and almost two years ago I transferred my
membership to Trinity Parish, also in Seattle. I found I had become
more Catholic in my faith (love the liturgy now!), rather orthodox,
and also wanted to work more directly with my spiritual director who
is the rector of Trinity. At Trinity I am in the choir, am a chalice
bearer, a lay reader, am on the Adult Education Committee, am on the
vestry and recently took on the job of Stewardship chair. An
additional (strong) interest I have is with the Church (and other
faiths) in the Middle East. I have been very active in local Middle
Eastern work, religious and political and am a member of St. Mark's
Palestinian Concern Group as well as a charter member of the
Jewish/Christian Task Force of the local Church Council.
I recently rejoined the Diocesan Ecumenical/Interfaith Committee,
having also spent six years on the board of the local Church Council
as our bishop's representative. I completed our diocesan school of
theology's "Foundations of Ministry" program and continue to take
classes there, as I have the time. In January I took the big step of
beginning the process to ordination, though I had been contemplating
it for the past ten years.
In spite of my degrees and work in fine arts, I make my living
working
as a documentation librarian/computer services consultant for MCIS
(Medical Centers Information Systems), the computer support
department
for the UW and Harborview Medical Centers through the University of
Washington. It's design of a sort, but mostly it pays the bills and
allows me to spend time at Trinity and with my other interests.
I was delighted to find the Anglican list and be a part of it and
now
have to learn to discipline myself a bit more regarding not spending
too much time on the internet and getting the work done they pay me
to
do. I look forward to "meeting" more of the other Anglicans.
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Ed VanderBerg (vberge at ursa.calvin.edu)
USA: Michigan (Grand Rapids)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Born: 1942 in Friesland, Netherlands.
Reared: Grand Rapids, MI.
Educated: Christian school system; Calvin College, Michigan State
U.;
Western Michigan U.; Aquinas College; Calvin Seminary.
Occupation: Former minister: Philippines, Guam, Jordan, Canada,
Saudi
Arabia; present work: writer, instructor in English Composition,
import/export, lecturer for non-traditional students.
Married: one married son.
Church affiliation: dual - including Anglican tradition.
Epke (official Frisian name; Ed U.S. version) vander Berg
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Barbara VanHooser (vanhoo01 at tsu.bitnet)
USA: Texas (Houston)
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Heather Voss (vossheat at student.msu.edu)
USA: Michigan (Lansing)
Biography last updated Apr 20
I am a cradle Episcopalian. Throughout High School I was very
involved with Western Michigan's Youth Department. The Department
is
very large and provides activities for many groups of people many
times a year. I was Rector at Happening one year, and I'm still
giving a lot of support to that program. I went to Province Events
for several years (all for which I was eligible), and then I went to
Montana for EYE in 1990.
My home parish in Allegan is very small. We just hired a new rector
this past year and he seems to be doing a lot of new and innovative
things. (Since I'm 100 miles from home, I don't get to experience
much of it). I was fortunate to have the experiences of visiting
different churches, know different priests, and being on personal
terms with the Bishop. (For a long time, I couldn't figure out what
why everyone thought it was so special for him to visit in Allegan.
Everyone would be excited, and I'd just respond, so, I just saw him
two weeks ago!) But I am very grateful for this experience and I
realize what a great impact it has had in my life.
I attend Michigan State and I'm in the Education Department minoring
in Earth Science and English. I'm involved with the Episcopal
Ministries at MSU, and I am now working for the chaplain. This is
nice because now my work does not conflict with the activities! :)
I'm attending Vocare in Michigan in November. I still attend
Province, and will be going to a planning meeting for this year's
soon. Hopefully I'll be able to attend the next National Gathering,
also.
I attended Vocare #7 in the Diocese of Michigan. It was a great
experience, and gave me the energy and encouragement to know that I
needed to do more. I staffed at the Vocare #3 in the Diocese of
Chicago. That was a wonderful experience. I had been involved in
the politics of Western Michigan for so long that I could not get
out
and have a weekend that was not filled with them.
Chicago was exactly what I needed at the time. It let me get away
to
a place where I didn't know anyone, where I didn't have any
connections, where I could be myself, and where I could do my job
and
not worry about other people or what they were supposed to be doing.
Getting into a background postition and out of the leadership was
the
key. It was a time where I could serve in my position and do it
well
while examining my life.
There I realized that some of the things in my life were out of
order. My relationship with my boyfriend was not working out and
because he is not religious and had no intention of becoming
religious, I knew that things would not work out.
I realized that I enjoyed youth ministry too much to give up
regarless of what they adults in Western Michigan were saying and
doing to discourage me from coming back. I am now looking into
youth
ministry as a profession.
The Young Adult Spring Event was held in Potosi, MO and was a great
success. Unfortunately, I was not able to serve on the planning
committee, but will try to work it in next year.
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Amanda Walker (amanda at intercon.com)
USA: Washington DC/Virginia
No biography on file
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Christopher Walker (cwalker at apollo.roundlake.baxter.com)
USA: Illinois (Chicago)
No biography on file
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Lawrence Walker (r1315%taonode at vmcms.csuohio.edu)
USA: Ohio (Cleveland)
No biography on file
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John N. Wall (jnweg at unity.ncsu.edu)
USA: North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
No biography on file
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Mike Watson (mikewatson at aol.com)
USA: Tennessee (Memphis)
No biography on file
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Charles Westerfield (ac320 at leo.nmc.edu)
USA: Michigan (Traverse City)
No biography on file
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Robert Whalley (whalley at dons.ac.usfca.edu)
USA: California (San Francisco)
No biography on file
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David White (white at mail.loc.gov)
USA: Washington DC
No biography on file
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Patricia White (pwhite%norwich.bitnet at mitvma.mit.edu)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
No biography on file
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Christopher Whitman (cwhitman at mv.mv.com)
USA: New Hampshire (Manchester)
Biography last updated Apr 19
Aged chorister. Sang in CT under the batons of Clarence Waters in
the late 40's, Alec Wyton & R.L.Gilliam in the 50's, Richard Crocker
in the 60's, Dennis Misckievitch in the 70's, in VT with Betty Clark
& Thomas Strickland in the 80's, and in NH with Lisa Wolfe in the
90's.
Probably the only person in NH who can tell by ear the difference
between Kent Treble Bob Minor and Steadman's Doubles.
Seasoned Chalicer. CA, CT, MA, NH, NY, OK, VT
Hyperactive lay person in 80's under Bp. Robt. Kerr in several VT
parishes, the diocese of VT, & Province I. Keen on lay ministries.
Currently a computer programmer, back bench bass, acolyte leader /
mentor, and single father whose three children (Mary Eliz, Nicholas,
Timothy, acolytes all) make the 2 hour trip from VT to be with their
father in NH every weekend.
Navigates by stars. Speaks Czech & German. Sings Russian. Models
railroads.
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Bob Wichael (bwichael at tigr1.fhsu.edu)
USA: Kansas (Hays)
No biography on file
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Michael Wild (m.j.wild at slh0601.wins.icl.co.uk)
England: Reading
No biography on file
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Arnold Williams (arnofwms at netcom.com)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Jason A. Wolcott (jwolcott at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
USA: Iowa (Iowa City)
No biography on file
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James R. Woodgates (james_r._woodgates at neb.voa.gov)
Location unknown
No biography on file
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Raymond Brett Wormley (bwormley at novell.com)
USA: Utah (Provo)
No biography on file
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Peter Yeager (yeager at mail.loc.gov)
USA: Washington DC
No biography on file
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James Yeats (yeatsj at gdls.com)
USA: Michigan (Detroit)
No biography on file
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Brad Young (young at a1.relay.upenn.edu)
USA: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
No biography on file
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Ronald B. Young (rbyjal at aol.com)
USA: Massachusetts (Boston)
Biography last updated Feb 13
Postulant in Holy Orders, Diocese of Massachusetts. Student at
Andover-Newton Theological School. My parish is Christ Church, in
Medway, Massachusetts. I'm also an Electrical Engineer.
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Sara Yurman (saray at freenet.scri.fsu.edu)
USA: Florida (Tallahassee)
No biography on file
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