M. S. BICKFORD has more than twenty years of pastoral experience and is the founding Dean of St. Aidan's Institute for Christian Formation and Leadership, which offers certificate programs in Leadership and Education for lay leaders. He is an ordained Anglican priest and has a Masters of Divinity (MDiv), a Masters of Sacred Theology (STM), and a PhD in Religious Education (from Fordham University). This background gives him the unique perspective of having worked in Evangelical Protestant, Anglican, and Roman Catholic contexts. Bickford lives with his family in New England and his work can be