Called to conservative Episcopal ministry
By NATASHA ALTAMIRANO

Former City Councilman Ronald Shibley was raised as a member of Fredericksburg Baptist Church.

Last weekend, Shibley was ordained--not as a Baptist minister, but as a priest in a conservative Anglican denomination called the United Episcopal Church of North America.

Shibley, who served as councilman from 1980 to '82, began studying Eastern Orthodox theology in the late 1980s and almost converted to that tradition.

He found his true calling in Anglicanism--but not in the Episcopal Church, the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has about 2.3 million members. the rest