Shelley Chesley's Page

Your Diocese

The Diocese of California

Your City

Mill Valley

Your Parish

The Macrina Community

Your parish website

http://www.macrina.org

Your Anglican 'Species'

Lay person

Your 'Day Job'

Volunteer hospital chaplain/San Francisco General Hospital; Lay co-founder Macrina Community

What you do for fun and re-creation?

Get Outside! (hike, run, swim, sit, garden, bicycle); Read (fiction, poetry, practical theology), collect and enjoy wide-ranging music, meditation, movies, theatre

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

Re-establishing the relevance, credibility and safety of Jesus, as well as the particular response to Christ in our time, that we call Anglicanism. Getting people together, face to face, in committed relational community.

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

Recognizing that God is always and everywhere active, not just in the Christian (nor even Anglican!) church, and joining in, as Christians, with Justice wherever we see it. Using the wide range of communication opportunities available to us wisely and creatively.

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

Resource for liturgical innovation, theological conversation, a sense of what is a creative, compelling discipleship model for our time