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Miguel Escobar is an Episcopal priest who writes, speaks, and presents on Christianity’s complex relationship with money, wealth, and poverty, seeking to recover the liberative threads of the Christian tradition. His first book, The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today, explores Christianity's economic justice tradition. He is currently working on a second book focused on the role of money in Jesus’ final week of life, noting how Jesus' sacrificial offering took place in the midst of religious and economic corruption. 

Miguel earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 2007, where he studied liberation theologies and homiletics. He has served in a variety of leadership roles within the Episcopal Church, including as communications assistant to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, managing program director at the Episcopal Church Foundation, and later as director of Anglican Studies and operations director at Episcopal Divinity School at Union. He serves as curate at San Andrés Episcopal Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a Spanish-language, Latino congregation. 

Formed by his upbringing in the Texas Hill Country, Miguel’s faith and ministry are shaped by a deep commitment to racial, economic, and migrant justice. He attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, where he studied the Roman Catholic social justice tradition, Latin American liberation theologies, and Spanish. He has lived outside the United States, in both Querétaro, México and Barcelona, Spain, experiences that deepened his commitment to a global, justice-centered faith.

Miguel currently serves on the boards of Episcopal Relief & Development, Rural & Migrant Ministry, and Friends of Forward Movement, and continues to advocate for a church that prioritizes issues of economic justice and extends a welcome to Latino immigrants and the LGBTQIA+ community. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Ben and their dog Duke.

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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...
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