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My name is Miguel Escobar, and I am an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Long Island, currently serving a two-year curacy at San Andrés Episcopal Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. My ministry sits at the intersection of faith, justice, and economics, with a particular focus on Christianity's relationship to money, wealth, and poverty. I explore these questions through preaching, writing, research, and teaching, drawing especially on my experience in Spanish-language Latino ministry.

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 fourteen 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 self-giving love 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 many Friday mornings, I accompany asylum seekers in immigration court through my volunteer work with the New Sanctuary Coalition.

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Welcome!

My name is Miguel Escobar and I am an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Long Island, currently serving a two-year curacy at San Andrés Episcopal Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. My work centers on the intersection of faith, justice, and economics, including through research and presentations on Christianity’s complicated relationship with money, wealth, and poverty. I write and think about these issues from my location in a parish setting, and more specifically as someone committed to Spanish-language, Latino ministry.   As a writer, I focus on how Christianity has wrestled with questions of money from its earliest days to the present. My first book, The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today , traces how the early Church’s stance on wealth shifted over the first five centuries, going from a position of sharp critique to eventual accommodation, and reflects on what was gained and lost in that transition. I’m currently working on a second book that explores the...

Called in Uncertain Times (Sermon in English and Spanish)

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On Greed and the Virtue of Sufficiency (Sermon in English and Spanish)

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