Welcome to Flourishing.Faith
Thanks for reading! I’ve been a pastor for my entire career (28ish years), and www.flourishing.faith is a place for me to reflect and grow in my thinking as I serve in God’s Church. I hope you’ll benefit from my reflections as we journey together to become who God has called us to be.
If you’d like to support the work I’m a part of, feel free to visit our parish website about what we are doing at St. Michael’s Anglican Church in Delafield (Delafield is in what we call Lake Country, a western region of the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area of Wisconsin).
A few notes about what I’m doing:
The posts are intentionally in draft form, in that what I am writing is me taking more responsibility by writing about my understanding of the religion I practice as a priest in Christ’s Church.
The comments are turned off. I do not believe God intended us as humans to have countless virtual “relationships.” If you know me or live near our parish, I welcome you contacting me directly. (For those who know me, my cell phone and email are the same as they have been for decades. I look forward to chatting). If you do not know me, please talk with whoever is next to you: a family member, a friend, a co-worker, a pastor, etc, but someone who lives next to you in person.
I write from within my vocation as a priest in the Anglican Church in North America and, more broadly, as a part of Christ’s one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church, and thus I am writing to help me serve well in this role. I serve under the authority of the Bishop of the Upper Midwest Diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, accountable to him for the orthodoxy of my doctrine and the orthopraxy of my behavior.
The major need pastors in Christ’s Church are called to address is clarity around the beauty of God’s creation as persons created in His image as male or female. Much of my work, especially in writing, is seeking greater clarity around how to work most effectively for the beauty of God’s creation and against the ever-present two-headed monster lie that gender is a social construct (rather than male or female assigned at conception) and that sex is a recreational activity between consenting partners (rather than only for one man and one woman within the context of covenantal marriage).
