As a seminarian, you get suspicious whenever you are invited to preach. I find great joy in coming home to St. Paul’s, in seeing friends and breaking bread with the community that walked with me at the start of a long process toward ordination. But as a seminarian, you have to be wary when theyContinueContinue reading “San Diego Sermon: Christ to one another”
Author Archives: Mike Angell
OWLs for Priests, The GOE (General Ordination Exams)
The past week of my life has been spent taking a massive test. The Episcopal Church requires that each person preparing for ordained ministry be examined in the areas of: Holy Scripture, Contemporary Society, Christian Theology & Missiology, Liturgy & Church Music, Christian Ethics & Moral Theology, the Theory & Practice of Ministry, and Church History.ContinueContinue reading “OWLs for Priests, The GOE (General Ordination Exams)”
On the importance of being a liturgical nomad.
Our chapel burned down this fall. It was an accident; no one was to blame, but it burned. I was on the seminary lawn as the smoke and flames reached heavenward, and I had a simultaneous feeling of grief and anticipation. The loss was profound. It upset our worship life in ways we are stillContinueContinue reading “On the importance of being a liturgical nomad.”
To Emerge or not to Emerge?
I’m a little sick of being the “emergent guy” on campus. In fairness, since giving a day long presentation a little over a month ago, a whole group of us have been openly identified as thinking in the “emergence” vein. I’ve been thinking about these questions for almost a decade now, since attending some churchContinueContinue reading “To Emerge or not to Emerge?”
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