Something Different

An assertion of independence written during my Lutheran seminary days, when I received some of the following responses to my pursuing human rights ministry, student activism, and making the denominational change to Presbyterian:



Something Different



I’m doing something different.


I know


Different isn’t cool.


Not here, not among us, it’s unconventional, confusing


maybe even frightening


it upsets the way we do things around here.


But I’m doing something different.


You said,


“But if you’re not doing what the rest of us are doing, then I don’t know who you are.”


Sure you do. You know my


faith and my character, my deep dreams


and hurts


I’ve shared them all with you and


I will keep sharing


and I will support you and your dreams but


I am doing something different.


July 25, 2005