Meghan Vesel's Page

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

TEC (The picture is not really me - it's just for fun!)

Your Diocese

Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Your City

Richmond, VA

Your Parish

National Cathedral/VERVE (emergent community in Richmond)

Your 'Day Job'

Auditor

What you do for fun and re-creation?

Oh...lots of things...international travel, languages, enjoying good wine, theatre, yoga.....

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

I think the Episcopal church may be the last Protestant dinosaur if it does not wake up and take notice of the shift in our cultural paradigm. Young Episcopalians have disaffiliated from the church and the church has done very little to assess the whys and wherefores of this phenomena.

Worship feels so stale in so many churches. There are a few shining examples in Virginia but they are by far the exception. (St. Paul Memorial in Charlottesville, St. George's in Fredericksburg, St. Stephen's in Richmond are the exceptions.)

I think the LGBT issue has been blown out of proportion by a a minority who cannot come to terms with a broad acceptance of LGBT community within our greater society.

In Virginia, there are some very odd evangelical types who for lack of a better term fear that they do not know.

I'm fed up with being part of a church in a diocese that refuses to live in the 21 century and ordain gay and lesbian people. C'mon on bishops, get with it, it's 2008.

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

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