Ping to CofE topic.
The question I was trained to ask myself was, ‘Whose needs am I serving?’
The reason I wore clericals was to stress my ‘office’, my sacramental persona above the wonder that is me.
the reason I have tried, with no success, to clean up my language, is that the more my tongue is mine, the more I can offer it to God.
This is lamentable pastoring. It follows from a bankrupt praxis generally.