April 13, 2005
+SFB/RIP
Still unpacking from our move to Nashville to become rector of Christ Church forty years ago, I was also writing an anonymous honorary doctorate citation for my good friend Scott Field Bailey, suffragan of Texas at the time. He was such an outstanding priest, bishop, and churchman, it was difficult to keep within the Virginia Seminary’s copy limits and, as well, meet their deadline.
I’d served on the search committee that called him to All Saints, Austin, TX, and on his first vestry there, just as I was about to enter ETSS’s founding class as a junior. This began a long relationship in which he became an invaluable mentor, example, and subsequently, boss bishop. I was honored to be one of his attending presbyters at his consecration.
He was a gentle person, powerful preacher, superb and thoughtful family man, all together with his winsome and convicting witness to the Good News. He was bishop of West Texas when he retired a few years ago.
Scott Field died April 9, 2005. The celebration of his life and ministry is today in St Mark Church, San Antonio, TX. Please keep him and his family — and me — in your prayers.