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The election of a bishop coadjutor for the Diocese of Tennessee will resume on Saturday.

I put my house on the market last Wednesday and sold it yesterday for just under my asking price. "Always get realtor recommendations from church friends" is one of my new theological principles.

I came out to my mother on Saturday. I'd love to write a lyrical and moving coming-out story, but I don't really do lyrical and moving, and besides, what is there to say? She cried, but she also said all the stuff you really want to hear about how this doesn't make any difference to her love for me. She called me back on Sunday and suggested (at least I think this is what she meant) that if she could have kept me from becoming an Episcopalian I wouldn't be leading such an unscriptural life now. She's very grieved, but the worst is probably over, and eventually she and I will talk about Scripture and she'll be every bit as scandalized that I don't read Genesis literally as she is that I have a boyfriend.

The Bishop sent me a lovely note in reply to my last Ember Week letter. He wants to get together and talk the next time I'm home.

You might want to read this not altogether heartening account of an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Teaching Company wants me to do a course for them. I'm delighted that I survived the exhaustive screening process, delighted to have a chance to reach a larger audience, and curious about whether I'll make any appreciable money as a result.