This website is an outgrowth of my May 2000 CREDO (Clergy Reflection Education Discernment Opportunity) experience. Below is a personal statement about what called me to develop the Deep Church concept and now this website. Please follow the links to learn more about Deep Church.

Personal Statement

"Be in a position of leadership in order to influence parish systems toward positive, loving, and caring relationships (with God and each other)" and "My passion is to teach!" [Objective #1 from my CREDO Plan]. For almost four years I have been reflecting on a concept called "Deep Church" that expresses my understanding of how positive, loving, and caring relationships can be lived, shared, and proclaimed. For me "Deep Church is a group of people who gather with a willing expectation to intimately share the love of God." Deep Church is the outward model of accepting and sharing "Shalom," a word that means "the fullness of all that God has to offer" rather than simply "Peace." Deep Church is an attitude that shares the Great Commandment, proclaims the Great Commission, and reminds all that the call to ministry begins with Holy Baptism. Consequently, Deep Church encompasses polity models such as High, Low, Broad, Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical and puts the sociological models of Family, Pastoral, Program, and Corporate in proper perspective. Deep Church is also a way of expressing the possibilities of a church that experiences relationships on an "organic" model rather than a highly structured "hierarchical" model. Structure is necessary to live out a healthy relationship but should not so bind the relationship that it suffocates. For me, Deep Church is my way of recognizing that all that we have comes from God and all that we need is present if we simply pay attention to God’s continuing call to us in Holy Scripture, our comprehensive Anglican Tradition, and God’s gift of discernment through our ability to reason.