My friends Jill and Michael Basden were in touch with me this morning. Michael is the retired rector of Trinity-by-the Cove Church in Naples, Florida. In 2001, after dropping off their son for school in Massachusetts, they arrived at the rectory on Sunday evening, September 9. I met Jill and Michael when our paths crossed for a year at Nashotah House Seminary. We were both rectors in the diocese of Northern Indiana when I was called to Saint Mary’s and, a few months later, he was called to Trinity-by-the-Cove.
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