wedding road trip

The Dueling Pastors: Jaime Case and Chris Hodges

Chris and I were chatting yesterday about, what else, the road trip, when I threw out yet another destination for our (almost finished) route…

Jaime: You know we have to go through Birmingham, Alabama.

Chris (already suspicious): Why? We’re not back on the Dolly Parton thing are we?

Jaime: No, we need to visit Chris Hodges.

Chris: I am too tired to even begin to understand this one.

You see, Chris Hodges is the pastor of the Church of the Highlands, a relatively well-known congregation in Birmingham. He’s all over the net, which means if I’m ever google-stalking my Chris, I have to sift through, oh, about a hundred pages about Pastor Chris.

It gets even better. As it turns out, there is a reverend named Jaime Case at a seminary in Austin, Texas who always shows up first in search engine results for my name. Jaime actually seems like pretty upstanding guy. In the past, we’ve shared email correspondence and he’s even been kind enough to let me add him as one of my Facebook friends. Not surprisingly, both Jaime and Chris are married (not to each other), which makes them prime candidates for a road trip visit from the “real” Jaime and Chris.

Chris: Wow. The story of the dueling pastors. That would make a great blog entry!

Jaime: Dude, you so can’t steal my good ideas. Come up with your own.

Chris: You know I don’t come up with original ideas. I just customize them.

Jaime: That’s like a thief saying he doesn’t steal, he just “borrows.”

In the end…

Score: Jaime 1, Chris 0.