A priest's tale

With candour and a wry sense of humour, A Priest's Tale recounts a panoply of experiences from Father Donald Dodman's personal and parish life that reveal the daily trials, triumphs, and peculiar incidents that make up the life of a working Anglican priest and a gay man. In delving into his awkward childhood as a violin-toting misfit; his confusion and turmoil during university years as he struggled with sexual desires that were out of step with societal norms; the thirty years he worked as an Anglican priest in provinces across Canada with native cultures, as well as rural and urban Anglican communities; or his retirement, and the miracle of meeting his soul-mate just when he thought such a thing implausible; Father Dodman explores not only the maturation of his own spiritual and sexual philosophies, but also the changes taking place in the Anglican Communion and society in general.