LostExplorer

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Lost Explorer


     Not sure what I want to reveal of myself here but I guess I could say I'm a father of a 15 year old boy, a 12 year old boy and a 20 month old girl who has stolen my heart forever.  I love all my kids but little girls are very special to daddy's.  All my kids have one mother who I love even when I don't want to.

     I am a Priest in the Episcopalian/Anglican Church in Canada and at times I dislike telling people that because it brings some pretty ugly assumptions and conclusions by the billions who have been hurt by religion and by those who know little of it.  I became a priest after several different careers and I know what its like to hate religion and have no use for it.  I call myself a "non-religious" Priest because I believe that the rational mind can also be a mind of faith without abandoning the incredible insights of sciences such as evolution.

     I often find a greater sense of mystery through the science stories than I do in faith stories and I live in a place where the two can be held in a kind of tension where they do not have to agree but can still compliment one another.

     Above all I see myself as a Lost Explorer - travelling through an incredibly minuscule distance of time called "life" and trying to enjoy every minute of it.

Identity
Last Name: 
Anderson
First Name: 
Tom
Education: 
University of Waterloo - Psychology; Wilfred Laurier University and University of Western Ontario - Masters of Divinity.
Occupation: 
Anglican (Episcopalian to my American friends) Clergy - but you're not allowed to hold that against me. If I have to put a label on myself, I'd say I'm very "Religio-rational" = I have no difficulty accepting science and religion in a tension that is respectful of, and listens to, both.

Location

Canada

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