A new look for Tricia?

I first heard of Skye Denno from the "News of the Weird" website last week. Evidently, Denno has been a big story across the Pond, becoming a very minor Eugene Robinson type. For Denno is the first openly punk minister, and has been profiled by The London Mail as well as The London Paper and The Mirror. So they aren't the Times, but the story is an interesting one.

Technically, as The Mail points out, Denno is still training to be a vicar, and is just an apprentice, or curate at the moment. But still, when she does become a vicar, her congregation will certainly be different. So she is essentially the Tim Black of St. James' the Great of Dursely. And while I like Tim Black, he clearly lacks Denno's style, since she goes to work as pictured. When she isn't wearing hot pants and a dog collar, that is.

But what I like most about this story--other than the possible style tips for Tricia--is that Denno sees her style not as something she should hide when going to work, but actually helps her at work. As many articles point out (and I've probably read too many about her already), she believes that 'it makes me more approachable and I haven't heard any grumbles. At the most people have been a little surprised." She even prays for and with people at the punk shows she attends.

Instead of trying to hide who she is, Denno is just herself, doing God's work as His tool. And in my opinion, that makes already makes her a good priest-in-the-making. If you can't accept who you are and how God made you, how can you help others learn to accept themselves as God has made them?