![]() Want more stories like this one? Check out 10,000 Takes. I think we need to acknowledge, in other words, what has been a wholesale flight of the marriage business from the brick-and-mortar denominations. They are now grabbing virtually anyone - I am Exhibit A - who will help them create the ceremonies they want. ![]() ![]() I am part of a proud, even pious, movement, inspired by America’s families, who have not been happy with the administrative marriage traditions imposed on them. The Universal Life Church, another online ordination mill, claims to have sold credentials for do-it-yourself marriages to more than 20 million people. This privilege places me among the millions of amateur celebrants who these days are performing marriages for their friends, relatives and passing acquaintances. This, by law, gives me all of the administrative ministerial authority of the Twin Cities' current (interim) Archbishop.įull-immersion baptisms, anyone, before the lakes get too cold? My money buys me a plastic, wallet-sized Ordained Minister’s License.įor Minnesota ceremonies, I pay him an additional $10 for notarized Credentials of Ordination, which I file with my local county clerk. Just the other day in Minneapolis I presided at my sixth wedding - each of them, scattered from Minnesota to California to Georgia, a joyful, heart-warming hoot. This is possible because, naturally, I gave $40 to a guy who runs an ordination mill called the American Fellowship Church. Spiritual fulfillment inspires many people to seek ordination in the ministry.
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