All systems are “go” today! It will be interesting to see how much time elapses before the next malfunction.
I’ve been internally debating where to go next with my expose of life in and with The United Methodist Church. The argument has been over how personal a blog should become. I’ve heard (though I’ve not read) that there are blogs where the author reveals everything, sometimes to her/his embarrassment later on. I don’t think that how many warts I’ve had removed over the years is really germane to the subject, but the fact that Dad left Mom shortly after we moved to Flagstaff somehow is. The values of the church as I understood them at the time—the sanctity of home and family paramount among them—were failing the experiential acid test just at the time I was preparing to publicly attest to them. My parents’ separation challenged the authenticity of the liberal theology I grew up with when compared to the conservative theology of Nate Holt who was inadvertently becoming my mentor and a surrogate father figure that had no intentions of leaving his wife. Which had more merit? The “practice what you preach” paradigm or the “do as I say and not as I do”? Suffice it to say that a holistic worldview which encompasses both the sacred and the secular is tested by such dilemmas, and my pursuit of the ordained ministry was certainly no exception.
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