Your Anglican Church Body Affiliation (CofE, TEC, AMiA...) - Leave blank if not applicable

TEC

Your Diocese

West Texas

Your City

San Antonio

Your Parish

St. Mark's, San Antonio

Your parish website

http://stmarks-sa.org

Your Anglican 'Species'

Priest

Your 'Day Job'

Assistant Rector

What you do for fun and re-creation?

I play: with my kids, with my wife, with my dogs
I read: theology, mystery & spy novels, Calvin & Hobbes
I run: for excercise, infrequently, away from phone calls
I watch: the Spurs, football(American), football(the rest of the world), baseball, movies
I listen: Natalie Merchant, Pink Floyd, Bach, Mozart, birds
I toil: in my yard, in the garden, fixing the house

What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?

Trading the our place in the essential story of faith for a place in the halls of bitterness, contempt and righteous indignation. We are more willing to be "right", and be utterly cut off from the people whom we are called to serve, than we are to serve.

What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?

This church, as it really can be, lives the faith so deeply. So many people have been cut off from communion with God and with all creation by those who miscast the message of Christ in language of dominance and control. Anglicanism, in its attention to the narrative of Christ's body through scipture and tradition, the community of sainthood, the transcendence in the sacraments and the sacredness of every moment, stands in a unique position to reach people who are desperately seeking true meaning in life.

What do you want Anglimergent to be? and what other Anglimergent resources, gatherings, activities or events would you find helpful for your ministry?

See the above.