Yesterday, I was a part of a Zoom meeting for a group of Manhattan rectors and academics. We keep two lists of active members. One is for those who will be hosts for lunch, the other for those whose turn it is to make a presentation or read a paper. Father Andrew Mullen, retired rector of Epiphany here in the city, has also for many years been a seasonal chaplain for the Church of England in Europe and elsewhere. There are Episcopal summer chapels, for example, on the Maine coast where people go in the summer. We learned yesterday that to become a chaplain now, the Church of England requires an FBI background check. But before we got to that, we discussed an Ash Wednesday without ashes.
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