I come from a family of Baptists in central Mississippi, whose devotion to Bible-reading and teaching formed me into a person for whom no existence is imaginable apart from the Church. I graduated with an English degree from the University of Richmond and moved to Budapest, Hungary for two years to teach in a public bilingual school. I came to the Anglican Communion by way of chaplaincies in the Diocese in Europe (Gibraltar), and I was confirmed into the Episcopal Church here in North Carolina, where I now attend Duke Divinity School. I tend to describe myself as a conservative Anglo-Catholic, though I recognize this to be a somewhat odd claim (to some observers at least) for someone who is by all accounts new to both Anglicanism and Catholicism in general.  Currently I am a postulant for holy orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.  I am planning to spend a year studying at Nashotah House after I finish at Duke.

I am wary of overworking this self-description while I am in the formative context of seminary. I have much to learn. I hope that Covenant will provide a further way of exploring the gifts and challenges of Anglicanism in the context of the larger catholic Church, and that in the process I may gain insight on my place within it.