Miguel Escobar is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Long Island, currently serving a two-year curacy at San Andrés Episcopal Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a Spanish-language, Latino congregation. His writing and teaching explore Christianity’s complicated relationship with money, wealth, and poverty.
Miguel is the author of The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today, which traces how the early Church’s sharp critique of wealth gradually shifted toward accommodation over the first five centuries, exploring what was gained and what was lost along the way. He is currently working on a second book examining how money appears throughout Jesus’ final week of life. By his count, money surfaces fourteen times in that final week, both as a thread of corruption surrounding Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion and as a language for understanding sacrificial offering and the meaning of the Resurrection.
Although only recently ordained, Miguel has worked in the Episcopal Church for nearly two decades in roles spanning communications, leadership development, theological education, and fundraising. He served as communications assistant to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, directed leadership and formation programs at the Episcopal Church Foundation, and later served as the program director for Anglican Studies at Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary. Across these roles, he focused on strengthening theological education and leadership formation.
Miguel’s academic path began at Our Lady of the Lake University, where he studied Roman Catholic social justice traditions, Latin American liberation theologies, and Spanish. He earned his Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 2007. Formed by his upbringing in the Texas Hill Country and by time living in Querétaro, México and Barcelona, Spain, his faith and ministry are deeply shaped by commitments to racial, economic, and migrant justice and to a global, justice-centered Christianity.
He currently serves on the boards of Episcopal Relief & Development and Rural & Migrant Ministry. Miguel lives in Brooklyn with his husband Ben and their dog, Duke.