I Reserve the Right to be Terrified A Long Life

You want to know why dying is like orgasm? Blayney Colmore, thirty years an Episcopal priest and life escort, explains: Does death make hash of all our efforts? Is there a dimension beyond what we know? Can normal people access it? As we burn down our culture's best achievements can we do something more useful than mourn? Come along on this holy roller coaster. You may recognize the highs and lows: baptism, marriage, burial, hitting for the cycle, from tomb to portal, an assassinated seminary classmate, close friend with Watergate criminals, an African odyssey, divorce, remarriage—all in the shadow of inevitable, impending death.

Blayney Colmore, was an Episcopal priest for 30 years — from the tumultuous ’ 60s into the new millennium. He served at parishes across the country, had two marriages, three children, and two step-children. He was active in protests against racism, Vietnam and the Iraq wars, and on an odyssey in pursuit of justice and peace. From the hope of the Great Society, women’ s  empowerment, compassionate welfare, to a minority seeking to dismantle our  democratic experiment, he’ s been here long enough to know passionate,  thoughtful energy can transform seeming hopelessness into new life.