Meltdown

Published: Oct. 13, 2008, 4:16 a.m.

b'Denise Kelsall in her Pentecost 21 sermon looks at the challenges of dating as a single priest.\\n\\n"On a personal level and as a single woman some rather hilarious experiences have happened to me since becoming a Priest. There I am looking sharp at a party and this guy and I get chatting and we laugh over common points of interest and everything is hunky-dory. Then I casually mention I am a priest and \\u2013 all of a sudden he starts talking about moral issues and gets all righteous about things\\u2026\\u2026\\u2026.amazing! But I also realize that his perspective on Christianity is the old-school control/fear/judgement/hell stuff that our more fundamentalist brethren tend to promote. So instead of yawning next time I am going to give him or her a blast."\\n\\nFull text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=453&id=883.'