John M. Linebarger is a bivocational priest in the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest of the Anglican Church in North America. His bishop is +Mark Zimmerman, and he served his curacy at Church of Our Lord under Fr. Harold Trott. John also wears the hats of husband and father, Computer Scientist at a National Laboratory, storyteller-in-training, and once-and-future guitar player. He lives with his family and a menagerie of books in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
What follows are some observations about trends in Anglican Clergy Formation and Anglican Ministry, and some talking point proposals about how dioceses and seminaries can respond to these trends proactively. Overall Thesis: Clergy formation and ministry are undergoing a time of transition in America. Residential seminary is giving way to more diocese-based training. Full-time positions…
I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.” When I was in college I went to Daytona Beach over Spring Break with Campus Crusade for Christ. The goal was to do beach evangelism, and they trained us how to…
Second language learners of English are often struck by the arcana of pronunciation (such as the legion of ways that the cluster “ough” can be vocalized), the subtleties of vocabulary connotation, and the vestigial remains of the Indo-European case and conjugation system. Behind much of the difficulty of acquiring a native facility with English lies…
