For this first episode of Crossings Conversations, our guest is Bishop Megan Traquair of the Diocese of Northern California. Bishop Megan speaks about her experience launching a non-profit management course for church leaders in the Diocese of Arizona. She also shares her passion for the catechumenate: a robust, accessible, and ancient approach to Christian initiation and formation.

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Guest Bio: The Right Reverend Megan M. Traquair is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California. Ordained in 1992 in the Diocese of Los Angeles, she has led congregations in Tucson, towns near South Bend and Indianapolis, and Los Angeles. When she was Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona, she ran all aspects of clergy transition (deployment), coaching clergy and congregations in conflict resolution and leading strategic planning.

Resource Links:

• Best Skills/Best Churches: What Seminary Didn't Teach You
• North American Association for the Catechumenate
• Catechumenate Training Videos (Baptized for Life)

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