As a writer, I examine how Christians have wrestled with questions of money from the earliest days of the Church to the present. My first book, The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today, traces how the early Church's understanding of wealth evolved over its first five centuries—from a sharp critique of wealth to a more accommodating posture—and reflects on what was gained and lost in that transition.
I am currently writing a second book that explores the role of money during Jesus' final week of life. By my count, money appears twelve times throughout Holy Week, revealing themes of corruption, power, generosity, and sacrificial offering. Money shapes the events leading to Jesus' arrest and crucifixion, yet it also becomes a way of understanding the Resurrection and the "ransom" for the freeing of the enslaved at the heart of the Gospel.
Although I was ordained only recently, I have served the Episcopal Church in a variety of leadership roles for nearly two decades. I began as communications assistant to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, later directed leadership and formation programs at the Episcopal Church Foundation, and went on to coordinate the Anglican Studies program EDS at Union Theological Seminary. Across these roles, I worked to strengthen theological education, communications, leadership formation, and institutional strategy for a changing and increasingly diverse Church - experience that continues to inform my parish ministry. Learn more about my professional background here.
My academic journey began at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, where I studied Roman Catholic social teaching and Latin American liberation theology. I later earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. I currently serve on the boards of Episcopal Relief & Development and Rural & Migrant Ministry. On some Friday mornings, I accompany asylum seekers in immigration court through my volunteer work with the New Sanctuary Coalition.