As Terry hinted at the beginning of this month, I have taken a new job with the Anglican Communion Network. Since the early 1990s, my greatest passion as a writer has involved the moral and theological debates within the Episcopal Church.
I was born an Episcopalian because my Roman Catholic father and Southern Baptist mother both knew they wanted a church for themselves and their two boys, but also knew they needed a liturgical via media. During the 1990s I sometimes experienced a love-hate relationship with the Episcopal Church, and I wondered if I ever would have joined it had I grown up in, say, an evangelical Lutheran church. Today that relationship is more of a lover's quarrel.
Because I will be engaged in an activist's role with the ACN, I will cut back radically on how often I write about Anglican and Episcopal matters for GetReligion. Indeed, I expect to write on such matters only if I can do so without setting off my Conflict of Interest Meter (which I try to keep fine-tuned).
I will, however, write about magazine articles on many other topics that touch on the concerns of this blog.
I'll always be grateful to Terry for making me part of this project when I was leaving the full-time staff of Christianity Today, but I'm also eager to rejoin the Anglican discussions I've been less involved in for the past several years. I'll still appear here, albeit it with less frequency.