This Sunday, we begin our 2025 Distinguished Pulpit Series by welcoming Paula Sophia Schonauer to Mayflower. Paula is an author, community leader, and Director of Oklahoma City University’s counseling center. Paula retired from the Oklahoma City Police Department in 2014 after 22 years of service and was once a vocational deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma. Upon coming out as transgender in 1999, she was reputed to be the first “transsexual” ordained as clergy in the Anglican Communion (although she regards that designation as rightwing hyperbole).