Hello! An Introduction (My first Substack Post)

 For those not on Substack, here is my introductory post:

Hi all! It appears that my favorite online thinkers/writers/creators are moving their conversations over to Substack, so here I am—hopefully only fashionably late to the party. If you are just learning about my existence, “Hi! I’m Taylor.” I have multiple public personas, but lately I’ve been making an effort to defragment my life and give others a chance to get to know the unmasked me.

I am a neuroqueer (monotropic) missiologist, pastor, academic, global nomad, and recovering White savior. I was born and raised in The United Methodist Church (the model pastor’s daughter), such that no matter how much my thinking on matters of theology evolves and oscillates, I will probably forever be ethnically Methodist.

I grew up moving around southern/central Indiana. When I was in middle school (early ‘90s), my late father was invited on a trip to the country now called DR Congo. From that point on, being a faithful friend to his Congoloese colleagues was his hyperfocus, and gradually it became mine too. (That’s the extremely abridged origin story of how I ended up getting ordained in the North Katanga Conference and appointed as executive assistant to the bishop of the North Katanga-Upemba-Tanzania Area.) If you are curious about those adventures and learnings, we wrote a few books about it that have become assigned texts in a number of seminary courses.   Click here to continue reading.