I recently passed the second anniversary of my ordination in Community of Christ, and there are a couple of memories from that moment that feel significant enough to write down—and significant enough for them to affect the way that I think about my ministry. I don’t know that I’m doing great with ministry, but I am trying, and as I continue to try, these memories associated with the actual event of ordination are ones that I want to keep in mind.

I bought this book with a gift card and to thumb my nose at an obnoxious visiting authority at a Latter-day Saint stake conference from over four years ago. This guy spent the Saturday evening session of the conference complaining about young adults who supported gay marriage and parents who pushed back against school discipline instead of giving their kids a whuppin’ (his words, not mine) and then still had the gall to talk about how great Mormonism is because it doesn’t believe in a fire and brimstone angry God.