After growing up in Ocean City, New Jersey, and while attending St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, I heard God calling me to ministry in the Episcopal Church. I wrestled with this call as I spent a year in England, and then two years in the mountains of western Maryland. That call never let me go - and so with my new bride, we moved to Atlanta where I began my seminary studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. After graduation I was ordained in the Diocese of Maryland and became the Vicar of St. Peter's in Lonaconing, and the Area Missioner for Western Maryland in 2002. In 2004, after the birth of my first child, Zoe, I also became the Priest-in-Charge of St. John's in Frostburg. Today my wife Karen, and my two little girls, Zoe and Mattie live a crazy fun-filled life New Jersey where I am the rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Basking Ridge.After years of struggling with certain people close to me, especially over religion, I began a project which, eight years later, turned into my first book: Going to Hell. I'm currently working on a follow-up to that book in addition to maintaining a lectionary preaching blog (www.rickmorley.com).