By the time I returned to school to finish a Bachelor of Arts in Music, I was already discerning a call to ordained ministry, which led to another degree in Religious Studies, and working as a peer minister at the University of Tennessee’s Episcopal Campus Ministry. I attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. While there, I continued my work on campus, serving at the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Howard University in Washington, D.C. After seminary, I was called to serve at St. Paul’s in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, and to remake the campus ministry at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. After St. Paul’s, I helped found a new and nontraditional Episcopal Church, called Southside Abbey, on the “Southside" of Chattanooga’s downtown. Along the way I finished a doctorate at Sewanee, and a master’s degree in Storytelling at East Tennessee State University and in conjunction with the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Before leaving Tennessee, I was a recurring guest lecturer at the School of Theology at the University of the South, as well as a Field Education supervisor, training seminarians to serve a changing Church. After almost thirty-five years, I moved north to serve in the Anglican Church of Canada as the rector of a large, multicultural parish in Ottawa’s bustling Chinatown. I was the 2015-2018 William B. Given Fellow as part of Episcopal Church Foundation’s Fellowship Partners Program, which meant that I got to travel around the United States and Canada encouraging those attempting to do and be Church in new ways. For five years I taught how to develop innovative liturgies at the Episcopal Seminary in Berkley, California, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, as part of their Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership program. Eventually I was called south to Vermont, serving as Interim Rector at Christ Church in Montpelier and Interim Rector and Priest-in-Charge at St. Andrew’s in Colchester. I am now the newest member of the wonderful team at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, where I am blessed to foster adult (mutual) formation, as well as build on the vital ministry of young adults (18-35) in, through, and among the greater Burlington area. Oh, and my friends call me Bobby.