I am the Instructor of Preaching at Bexley Seabury Seminary. I guide students through the nuances of effectively communicating the gospel across diverse contexts, emphasizing attention to marginalized communities and contemporary societal issues. I also serve as Associate Rector at All Saints Episcopal Church in Homewood, Alabama.

Previously, I served as the Canon for Vocations and Community Engagement in the Diocese of Alabama. In this role, I worked with leaders (lay and ordained) and with those in discernment and formation for ordained ministry. I also served as the Communications Coordinator for the Diocese of Alabama. Before joining the diocese, I practiced law as a public defender, in private practice, and as the interim director of a legal clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law.

I was ordained as a deacon in October 2011 and served churches in Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Fairfield. My diaconal ministry included directing the Episcopal Tornado Recovery Cooperative, a collaborative effort of the Episcopal churches in Tuscaloosa to respond to the devastating April 2011 tornadoes. I was ordained a priest in November 2020 and have served churches across the diocese, including in Birmingham, Heflin, Greensboro, Alabaster, Roanoke, and Chelsea. For fifteen years, I served as a spiritual director for the Diocese of Alabama Vocare Community. I have served on various diocesan committees, including the Standing Committee, the Bishop’s Committee on Generous Pastoral Response, the Department of Campus Ministry, and the Young Adult Ministry Steering Committee. I served as the Lead Documentarian for the Alabama State Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

My academic and professional training includes a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Juris Doctorate, the National Criminal Defense College, Education for Ministry through Sewanee, and the Alabama Ministry School. I am a homiletic peer coach, having completed the David G. Buttrick Graduate Certificate Program in Homiletic Peer Coaching through Vanderbilt Divinity School. I have also completed the Teach Leadership program through the Kansas Leadership Center. I am a trained Thriving in Ministry mentor-coach. I am completing Coaching4Clergy‘s Professional Coach Training Program and intend to seek accreditation as an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In 2024, through Bethany Theological Seminary, I completed a Master of Arts: Theopoetics and Writing with honors in Theological Studies and distinction on my portfolio, “A Preaching Theopoet: Afrofuturism, Theopoetics, and a Labyrinthine Journey.” I am a student at Candler School of Theology at Emory in the Doctor of Ministry in Biblical Interpretation and Proclamation.

My spouse, Shanti, is a poet, writer, and professor. We live in Birmingham, Alabama, with the “Ginger Brothers” — an orange cat named Julien and a corgi named Brother Juniper. This website serves as a library of my sermons, writings, art projects, and coaching work.