Writers and Contributers

Greg is the founder of Anglican Pastor and serves as editor and one of the writers. He is an Anglican Priest of the Anglican Church in North America. He served in a non-denominational church before being called into the Anglican church in 2003. He has served as an Associate Pastor, Parish Administrator, and Rector. He currently serves as the Canon to the Ordinary for the Anglican Diocese of the South.

Josh founded Rookie Anglican to help make Anglicanism more accessible to Anglicans and the Anglicurious. Read his blog at JOSHUAPSTEELE.COM and follow him on Twitter: @joshuapsteele.

Rev. Herb Bailey is the Executive Ministry Director for Uncommon Grounds Café; A Base for Church Army USA. He is looking forward to breaking ground on the community park in Aliquippa. Uncommon Grounds Café is run by Evangelists and volunteers. We reach the least, the last and the lost with the gospel of Christ through listening and offering dignity. We are a space for Churches to learn and practice the Great Commission through volunteering, work missions, and training. We are a space for transition from isolation to community.

Gary Ball is church planter and rector of Redeemer Anglican Church in Asheville, NC. Gary graduated from Trevecca Nazarene University, in Nashville, TN. In addition to church planting, he is in the D.Min program at Nashotah House Seminary exploring the relationship of art and theology. Gary is married to Susannah, and they have three children.

Dr. Winfield is the Director of Church Planting at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He also directs Asbury’s Anglican Formation program. As a seasoned practitioner, he has helped plant several churches and has used his experience to train leaders from around the world. He is the author of several books including his forthcoming book Ever Ancient Ever New: The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation (Zondervan, 2018). As an author, one of his passions is the intersection of spiritual formation and mission. He and his wife Kay, have three school aged children and live in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky.

Alex is a PhD student in historical theology and patristics at Baylor University in Waco, TX, where he is a member of Christ Church Waco. Before that, he received a MDiv from Regent College in Vancouver, BC. He is passionate about helping local churches equip the saints for the work of ministry and to grow deeper into life with God through the revitalization of catechesis. He lives in Texas with his wife Molly and their two young boys.

Summer Joy Gross is a spiritual director, writer/poet, and ordained Anglican priest of fourteen years. These days Summer fits ministry in between homeschooling and soccer practice while her husband of twenty-one years, Canon Andrew Gross, works on behalf of Archbishop Foley Beach. Together Summer and Andrew love to tent camp (with a view), kayak the islands around Bar Harbor, and eat their way around the world. While she craves the barbecue of Atlanta where they live, Summer is completely sure that heaven is a long table overlooking the Tuscan countryside. Her words and lectio divina videos find a home at aThirstforGod.com.

Father Dale Hall began ministry in 1987 at Calvary Baptist Church, in Rome, Georgia, while in college. He's been a social worker and crisis counselor, as well as a Vineyard pastor. Now he's an Anglican priest serving at The Mission, in Chattanooga, where he leads several ministries, and lives with his wife Kimberly. They have two sons and a daughter in law.

Jack joined Anglican Pastor as a writer in February, 2014. He is a native of Knoxville, TN and serves as rector of Apostles Anglican Church in his hometown. Before serving at Apostles, Jack served Methodist churches in Knoxville and Gateshead, England. In England, Jack discovered his love for the Anglican tradition that would later become his spiritual home. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 2008 on his 30th birthday. Jack is married to Emily and they have two young children. Jack received a B.A. in History from Samford University and a Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School.

Shawn is the founding priest of Resurrection South Austin which launched in 2015. Upon completing an M.Div at Fuller Theological Seminary, he was ordained to the Diaconate in 2011, and the Priesthood in 2012 in the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others under bishop Todd Hunter. He helped plant Redeemer Anglican Church in Santa Cruz, CA in 2012. In addition to being the rector at Resurrection, he is working on a D.Min at Nashotah House Theological Seminary exploring the Sacramental Imagination, is helping start an Anglican church planting initiative in Central Texas, and serving on the provincial task force for church planting. He and his wife Michelle have been married for over ten years and are parents of four playful and beautiful children. Shawn enjoys brewing beer, (used to enjoy) surfing, and wrestling with his kids.

Thomas is a husband, father, friend, pastor, author, speaker, movie reviewer, and by grace alone the beloved of Jesus. He lives in Nashville with his wife and two daughters. He was ordained in the Anglican Communion in 1998, and is the founding pastor of Church of the Redeemer in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lauri Moyle is a deacon in transition at Anglican Church of the Redeemer in Chattanooga. Before he discerned a call, he worked in policy formation in London, where together with other concerned Christians, they saw success in influencing the Government on remote gambling policy and child online safety. He has an academic background in psychology, theology and politics and is married to Anna. Together they have a young one that loves the family iPad.

Elizabeth currently lives and loves in Kentucky, where her husband Joel recently graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary. She spent most of her adult life until 2011 living in 3 different countries in Muslim Africa. Living as a follower of Jesus among Muslims has radically shaped how she understands and writes about her faith and her life. She is the mother of three young children. She loves to paint, write, go to public libraries after living without them for far too long, engage with women from other places and other faiths and dream about what life after seminary might look like.She has a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Studies and an undergrad degree in Bible and Biblical Languages.

John is a Knoxville, Tennessee native and was a third generation member of the Christian Church, where he served as deacon, elder, and teacher. He and his wife, Clare, were drawn to the Anglican Church by the rhythm of the daily office, the richness of liturgy, and the presence of a sacramental worldview. John was ordained to the priesthood in May 2015.He looks forward to continued ministry at Apostles Anglican Church. John and Clare have one daughter who is currently in college studying secondary science education.

Canon David has over 35 years of local congregational ministry, diocesan and national involvement, leadership, and ministry experience and is the founder of Leaderworks. He was the founding Rector/Pastor, Christ Church, Plano and currently serves as the Strategic Leader and Dean, Diocese of C4SO.

The Rev. Porter Case Taylor is an Anglican priest residing in Kansas with his wife, Rebecca, and their three sons. He is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen working on a dissertation on liturgical theology and agency in worship. Additionally, he is the author of “The Liturgical Theologian,” a blog on the Patheos Evangelical Channel and is passionate about liturgy, the sacraments, and ecclesiology. He received his MAT from Fuller Theological Seminary and is editing a volume of essays honoring Alexander Schmemann due to be published by Pickwick Publications (academic imprint of Wipf & Stock) in 2018.

Jonathan joined Anglican Pastor as a writer in May, 2014. He was ordained priest in the Anglican Church in North America in March 2014. He is married to Tish Harrison Warren, also a priest in the ACNA, and together they have two lovely and spirited children. Jonathan bounced around graduate school for the better part of the last decade, collecting a J.D. from Georgia State University and an M.A. in Church History from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has recently received his Ph.D. in the History of Christianity at Vanderbilt under the supervision of Dr. Paul Lim and Dr. Peter Lake. Jonathan and Tish live in Pittsburgh, where they serve as Co-Associate Rectors at Ascension Anglican. Jonathan’s contributions to Anglican Pastor focus on Anglican church history.

Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America, serving as Co-Associate Rector of Ascension Anglican, Pittsburgh. She is author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (IVP). She writes regularly for The Well, InterVarsity's online magazine for women in the academy and professions, Her.meneutics, and Christianity Today. Her work has also appeared in Christ and Pop Culture, & Art House America.