Ms. Theologian will respond to Katrina Denza’s tag.

Ten Things You May Not Know About Me

1. When I was three, God spoke to me at nursery school. God said, “Run forward into the world with your eyes closed and arms outstretched.” I did this. I ran straight into a Morton Bay Fig tree and broke my nose. I actually think that God’s word was correct, but that I didn’t implement it quite right.

2. Later during the year I was three, God told me to play with some clay I found in the sandbox. This turned out to be dog poo. Again, I think I must have misunderstood dog…erm…God.

3. I grew up in a very conservative suburban community (Have you seen Country Boys? It was like that sort of religious-base, but in a middle-class framework). There was a religious club in my high school that prayed, sometimes for my pagan soul, which they then told me about afterward.

4. In an ecumenical service that I led, I once gave communion with Fruitopia instead of wine (I forgot the wine). I did say a short prayer for forgiveness, but frankly I didn’t think God would mind. No one in the service seemed to notice.

5. I got ordained over the Internet because I was afraid that the minister my friend, Ghost Girl, hired for her wedding wouldn’t show up. He was ordained over the Internet too. (I also went to seminary before this, but chose not to be ordained that way).

6. I consider public service one of the highest form of ministry. I’m vice-president of the local water board, which is probably more work than my day job. And I do it for free so that we can have safe, clean, protected water.

7. Close to nothing makes me angrier than homophobia.

8. I find absolutely no contradiction between theology and science and often think they are more or less the same thing.

9. Along those lines, I’m good in math and science and earn a living writing for educational publishers.

10. I hike almost every day behind my house. I consider if a form of worship.

Passing the tag to Ghost Girl, Anne Bauer, Kristie, Aimee, and Anne Pender.