The Rev. Kenneth Brannon wandered onto the national Episcopalian Web site last year and found something he didn’t know he was looking for.<\/p>\n
At the time Brannon, 39 tomorrow, was an associate rector at St. Barnabas in Sleepy Hollow, Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. With two children (Lucy, 10 and Isaac, 6) in school and his wife, Rachel, a psychotherapist studying to be a Jungian analyst, the idea of moving out West wasn’t on his radar. But Brannon saw the Web site for St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Ketchum, which was in the process of a new minister search.<\/p>\n
Brannon was immediately intrigued, and continues feeling that way a month after moving to the valley to fill the large shoes left at St. Thomas by the departures of Rev. Brian Baker and more recently Bishop Craig Anderson.<\/p>\n
“We weren’t looking to move to Idaho. But the program and the St. Thomas Playhouse were compelling,” he said. Brannon’s second degree (out of three) is from New York University in drama therapy.<\/p>\n