Father Doug

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About me

Gender Male
Location Auburn, New York
Introduction I grew up in a strongly religious home, in a conservative Baptist Church (CBA)in Sparta, Mich. I attended Wheaton College and converted to the Episcopal Church in 1975. I attended Seabury-Western Seminary and graduated in 1981. I was ordained in 1983 and worked first at St. Margaret of Scotland Church in South Shore, Chicago. I was married in 1984 and changed my surname from SCHUT to Taylor-Weiss. I was Rector of St. Andrew's in Dayton, O., from '87 to '98 when I came to Auburn. I have two daughters.
Interests Hiking, Snowshoeing, X-Country skiing
Favorite Movies The Fisher King, Babette's Feast, On the Waterfront, Groundhog Day, Remains of the Day, It's a Wonderful Life
Favorite Books T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Chesterton, Lewis, Geo. Herbert, Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, Wendell Berry, G.M. Hopkins, Northrop Frye, Oliver O'Donovan, Douglas Farrow, Annie Dillard, Ephraim Radner, Pannenberg, Flannery O'Connor, Christopher Lasch, "No Place of Grace, "