A Separate Peace: A Meditation on Vocation in the Age of Illness

“If I should start all over, what I have done, I would do it over again. For a shepherd, it is a duty to give his life to his flock.” -Alexander Sauli

I have a controversy with The Episcopal Church. To understand it requires some context, I suppose. If you don’t require that, feel free to skip two paragraphs.

I’ve been an Episcopalian since my baptism at the age of six weeks. I was confirmed at 13, served in the junior choir and as an acolyte, eventually becoming head acolyte. I was the president o…