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Michael

For the means of grace and the hope of glory...

About Me


I'm a Christian - Episcopalian flavor - and my dream: to open a hostel in Spain, and serve there as a priest one day. In the mean time, I hope to serve a church once I am ordained. I'm in seminary right now.

If you want to know more, ask!.

"...if you want to know me, don't ask where I live, what I like to eat, how I part my hair; rather, ask me what I live for, in every detail, and ask me what in my view prevents me from living fully for the thing I really want to live for." (Thomas Merton)

Right now, I am an intern at:

My Interests

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Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Invisible Children
One Campaign
Darfur & Sudan

pilgrimage
hiking
being on the water (any one with a sailboat is welcome to be my friend!)
cooking
museums
travel, because there is so much to learn and explore and appreciate in this world full of magnificent people in all their variety and beauty

I'd like to meet:


An eclectic mix! I'm open to meeting all types of folks.

Right now, I think I'd like to have brunch with the archbishop of canterbury, tea with Maddy Albright, go for a walk with Desmond Tutu, but I'm more than content with my friends. They are a fabulous lot! Oh, and if Tom Brady were to ask me on a date, I'd probably give him a chance (haha!).

Music:

All kinds:Maroon 5
Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis Presley
Dolly Parton
Patsy Cline
Nina Simone
Judy Collins
Cassandra Wilson
Johny Lang
Willie Nelson
Brad Paisley
Johnny Cash
Mississippi John Hurt
Norah Jones
Cher
The Ink Spots
Mario Frangoulis (he's sexy)
Merlene Dietrich (SHE's sexy)
Mahalia Jackson
Loretta Lynn
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Opera
Hands in air techno
Anything live

Movies:

The Color Purple
Fried Green Tomotoes
Anything Foreign
original Star Wards movies
First Wives Club
Devil Wears Prada

Television:

I don't really watch television: I know, it sounds crazy, huh?
Update: this used to be true, but now I'm back in school, and my friends peer pressure me into scifi channel, and gillmore girls (that's real peer pressure!).

Books:

The Little Prince
The Color Purple
The Lost Painting
Devil in the White City
Lolita
Velveteen Rabbit
Runny Babbit
Life Together (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
The Great Good Place
The Sacred Art of Pilgrimage
Agatha Christie
Plato
any mystics
Nouwen
Christly Gestures, by Brett Webb Mitchell

Heroes:

Mom
Jesus
St. Martin of Tours
Anyone who can get elected over George Bush!

My Blog

Another reason to love Maya Angelou

When I say... "I am a Christian" By Maya Angelou I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'." I'm whispering "I was lost, Now I'm found and forgiven." When I say... "I am a Christian" I don't speak of this wi...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:16:00 PST

GO - help New Orleans

Returned this weekend from New Orleans - it was an amazing experience, and I hope to return soon. Maybe you should think about it also.Can you imagine block after block of destruction? A journalist,...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:01:00 PST

Help sponsor me to volunteer in New Orleans!

Hi Folks,Along with three other students from my seminary, I am going to New Orleans for spring break to work in the 9th ward with Common Ground Collective - a locally started organization helping reb...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:34:00 PST

Peace Rallies, or Anger Rallies?

So, I got wind of the rally on last Saturday (the big nationwide call for a rally against the war in Iraq). Well, I am a proponent of peace, and hope that someone might come up with a plan for withdra...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:58:00 PST

impotent tear ducts, and praying for Dmitri

I was asked to pray for a young man today, whose name is Dmitri. All I was told is he needs faith. I think we all need that prayer for us!This came from a woman I sat next to during lunch. She was ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:51:00 PST

unrequited love - if only .... we can wish.

It is no small consolation in this life to have someone you can unite with you in an intimate affection and the embrace of a holy love, someone in whom your spirit can rest, to whom you can pour out y...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:58:00 PST

Episcopalians, Uganda, and the Invisible Children

In preparation for a presentation on the Millenium Development Goals , I watched a video about children in Uganda who are being abducted and beaten/programed into guerilla militias. They are kidnappe...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:55:00 PST

every heart, every heart will come to love

Some of my favorite words of wisdom from a prophet:   Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.   From a l...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:57:00 PST

gay great happening illimitably earth

Thanks Justin: mwah (on the cheek)...i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everythingwhich is natural which is infini...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:46:00 PST

It's been awhile, but here's my Christmas update!

December 23, 2006Dear Friends and Family,Cards are busy flying through the post, but this year I thought a letter might be a nice change of pace and give me a chance to share with you some of the joys...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:24:00 PST