Why like Nairobi ?
I received my first graduate degree at Makerere University in Uganda and I taught in a town just outside of Nairobi. So it’s the climate. Yes, it’s the climate, although we both like the expat life style. We’ve both been expats for a long time. You have a long pedigree in religious education. Did you always plan to become an Anglican priest? Actually, I started out as a Roman Catholic with my early seminary training through high school and the first two years of college. However, it became clear that I was not called to celibacy, so that was put aside for a while. I actually spent 25 years of my working life as a computer programmer. I worked for NASA during the moon landing and after that studying moon rocks. I then went to work for oil companies – mostly Saudi oil companies – and lived in the Middle East. When I decided to go back to the priesthood, I became ordained in a small Orthodox body in 1980. It was the American Jurisdiction of the Holy Orthodox Church. My ex-wife didn’t like