Yes, completely. If I had my life to live over again, I would choose the same career path, marry the same wife, have the same children and serve the same congregations and the same diocese.
I loved every phase of my professional life. I loved being a priest and pastor. I loved being a bishop and an author. I love being retired now with a still developing writing career.
Do I have worries and concerns. Of course!
I am concerned that elements in the Anglican Communion who do not inhabit the same century that I inhabit want to force my church into being a pre-modern faith community that will not condemn yesterday’s misguided definition of homosexuality and violate my church’s integrity.
I am concerned that we have in Washington an administration that does not understand the complexity of our world and that uses the threat of terrorism to erode the freedoms upon which this country was founded, including the absolute separation of church and state.
Deep down, however, I believe my church has sufficient leadership to restore balance to the Anglican Communion and that my country is too great than to allow this president to bend democracy to serve his fear. I am also convinced that a nation that survived urban riots, the divisiveness of the Vietnam War and the corruption of Watergate can also survive this administration.
I therefore look to the future with hope.
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