After hearing the call unexpectedly at a church service in Port Townsend, Wash., Father Tom Wilson, 79, came out of retirement last month to reopen St. Francis Episcopal Church.
The church, with a flagging congregation, had been closed for about four months.
After 30 years in the priesthood, he took a 10-year detour through Judaism, although he never left the church.
It took him about three years to get his holy orders back, he said.…