Thank you! The idea of that has scared me from the time I was young. “You’d make a great minister” they’d say in Sunday school, because I was good at working with the younger kids or I’d occasionally have a clever thing to say. And I rolled the idea around in my head – a lot. Imagining what it would be like. I even interviewed other religious leaders in my area – and of course they loved a young person showing interest so they were kind enough to oblige. I revisited it later on online, created a group called MINISTRY where I gathered spiritual leaders from different religions together.

I was focused on Western religions and the logistics at the time – and it ended up gathering together a few thousand religious leaders who were almost entirely civil, with a few exceptions I had to kick out. Ran it for a few years before passing it on wholly to two people – a baptist minister from South Carolina and a pagan priestess from Alaska to run together.